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From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g DOT r DOT vansickle AT worldnet DOT att DOT net>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: snapshots R us
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 21:20:36 -0500
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> On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 08:52:50PM -0500, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> >Just installed it (WinXP), getting this:
> >
> >c:\WINDOWS>uname
> >c:\unix\bin\uname.exe: *** shared version mismatch detected - 0xBC3E/0x3E.
> >You have multiple copies of cygwin1.dll on your system.
> >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.
> >
> >No multiple copies of cygwin1.dll on my system.
>
> But there is a cygwin process running somewhere.  Otherwise you wouldn't be
> getting this error.  This indicates that cygwin's shared memory is
> already initialized, which wouldn't be the case if you run 'uname' from
> the command prompt as the only cygwin process on the system.
>
> The last resort is rebooting if nothing else works.

Ok, that was weird.  No visible Cygwin processes according to "Task Manager",
but sure enough, a reboot freed that shared memory.  And Perl is now working as
well.  It's like Christmas in October!

--
Gary R. Van Sickle
Brewer.  Patriot.


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