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Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 02:30:42 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Q: *** Shared region version mismatch. ??
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In-Reply-To: <E950EF47BA67A548A32EFCD0B90697E81747B0@za-exchange.za.mosaicsoftware.net>; from Jean@mosaicsoftware.com on Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 09:27:24AM +0200

On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 09:27:24AM +0200, Jean Jordaan wrote:
>Hi All
>
>I've been running Cygwin V1.1 very happily since it came out. Yesterday
>I tried to run sitecopy-cygwin-0.10.7.exe, which complained about missing 
>cygintl.dll. This looked like part of gettext, which my cygwin didn't have
>yet, so I ran setup.exe to upgrade to the current distro (my first big
>cygwin upgrade). 
>
>Now, all of a sudden, I get:
>
>C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** Shared region version mismatch.  Version 1A !=
>1E.
>Are you using multiple versions of cygwin1.dll?
>Run 'cygcheck -r -s -v' to find out.
>
>(I get exactly the same error when I attempt to run 'cygcheck -r -s -v'.)
>I searched http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/ for 'shared and (region or 
>regions) and (version or versions) and (mismatch or mismatched or 
>mismatching or mismatches)'. This turned up a thread with passages like:
>
>> Haven't you seen people complaining about the "Shared region version
>> mismatch" error with cygwin?
>( http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2000-08/msg01243.html )
>
>which at least shows that I'm not alone. It suggests that the problem
>might be having more than one copy of cygwin1.dll in the path. I have
>only C:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll , so that doesn't seem to be my 
>problem. Could anyone point me at how some of those other people who
>were complaining about shared region version mismatches resolved their
>problems?

Search your system.  You have more than one copy of cygwin1.dll.  The
error message is not wrong.

The windows "Find All Files" command, available from the start menu
should pinpoint it.  Once you find the old version, delete it.

cgf

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