X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 10:04:34 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: cygheap base mismatch detected From: Reini Urban To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 9:37 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > On 7/17/2012 6:56 PM, Reini Urban wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >>> >>> Is there a workaround for the problem mentioned in >>> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-11/msg00580.html? I suddenly started >>> getting this error like every other time I run perl. >> >> perlrebase > > When I run perlrebase I get: > > Ltsdo-adefaria:perlrebase > 3 [main] perl5.10.1 (6808) C:\Cygwin\bin\perl5.10.1.exe: *** fatal > error - cygheap base mismatch detected - 0x612768B0/0xD268B0. > This problem is probably due to using incompatible versions of the cygwin > DLL. > Search for cygwin1.dll using the Windows Start->Find/Search facility > and delete all but the most recent version. The most recent version > *should* > reside in x:\cygwin\bin, where 'x' is the drive on which you have > installed the cygwin distribution. Rebooting is also suggested if you > are unable to find another cygwin DLL. > > and proceeds to consume about 10% of CPU for like 10 minutes. Am I just > supposed to let it crank along? No. This looks like you really got 2 cygwin1.dll's running. Strange. -- Reini Urban http://cpanel.net/ http://www.perl-compiler.org/ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple