Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Reply-To: Cygwin List <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Message-Id: <6.2.0.14.0.20050212134822.02c1b998@pop.prospeed.net>
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 13:50:51 -0500
To: CV <or254498 AT hotmail DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: cygheap version mismatch ?
In-Reply-To: <loom.20050212T165626-765@post.gmane.org>
References: <loom DOT 20050212T165626-765 AT post DOT gmane DOT org>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

At 10:58 AM 2/12/2005, you wrote:

>It looks like I have managed to screw up my cygwin installation
>more or less completely :o(
>
>What I did: I was trying out some of the latest snapshots, and
>noticed that KDE would not start with them. So I kept trying,
>changing back and forth between the different cygwin1.dll files,
>rebooting and running rebaseall -v between tries.
>
>Result: Now, whenever I try starting XWin (whether with KDE or
>without) it will fail with the message such as the following:
>
>C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\XWin.exe (4056): *** cygheap version
>   mismatch detected - 0x61790000/0x1010000.
>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.
>
>I have tried putting the original cygwin1.dll back, including
>reboot and rebaseall -v, but still the same results.
>
>As it is, the only thing I can do is run bash in a dos window.
>
>There are definitely no multiple copies of that file. I renamed
>all the other snapshopts to <something_else>._dll and searched all
>disks.
>
>Any pointers or advice would be greatly appreciated.

Start here:

>Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html


Also, did you start any Cygwin services? 



--
Larry Hall                              http://www.rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc.                      (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
838 Washington Street                   (508) 893-9889 - FAX
Holliston, MA 01746                     


--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/