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Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 16:17:07 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: cygwin doesn't work on .NET server
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On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 12:10:26PM -0700, Brady Montz wrote:
>I looked through the mailing list archives, and did a google search,
>and while this has come a few times over the past year, I haven't seen
>any solutions to it. 
>
>I have not been in pressing need of it until now, since while I
>develop for .NET server, I've been able to keep my dev machine running
>XP (oh joy). However, the time is nigh when I'll have to move that
>over to .NET server as well.
>
>So, I've tried the various things posted before - fiddling with
>/etc/passwd and /etc/group, clearing out the mount registry settings,
>...
>
>but nothing seems to work.
>
>Here's the symptoms I see:
>
>Depending on the version of .NET server I have, bash.exe (as run from
>cygwin.bat) either hangs, or immediately exits. zsh.exe (as installed
>from the setup program) immediately crashes.
>
>/etc/passwd and /etc/group are empty. mkpasswd -l and mkgroup -l (how
>they are run from postinstall) don't print anything out. 
>
>I tried copying over the nicely populated passwd and group files from
>my XP machine, but that didn't change anything.
>
>Does anybody know what's going on here? Any ideas?

Sounds like the ol' "two cygwin1.dlls on the system" problem to me.

Search for cygwin1.dll using the Windows Find/Search facility.

cgf
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