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Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:59:33 -0400
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On 3/11/2010 2:45 AM, Eugen Zalinescu wrote:
>>>>> My problem is that I cannot start cygwin (with Cygwin.bat). Actually
>>>>> any cygwin application finishes as soon as I invoke it (or in about
>>>>> 1sec), with no output, as in
>>>>>   D:\cygwin\bin>  bash
>>>>>
>>>>>   D:\cygwin\bin>
>>>>>
>>>>> However, sometimes (I cannot reproduce the behavior), I obtain a
>>>>> "cygheap base mismatch detected" error.
>>>>>
>>>>> I attach a cygcheck.out file and the setup.log for a "fresh"
>>>>> installation (I didn't uninstall my previous installation, which was
>>>>> working fine some time ago, but just put it elsewhere; it is said that
>>>>> this should be OK in 1.7.1. Anyhow, I have same behavior with both the
>>>>> new and old installation).
>>>>>
>>>>> There do not seem to be other versions of cygwin1.dll in the system,
>>>>> and I obtain the same behavior after deactivating the anti-virus; and
>>>>> I don't have any other program from the BLODA neither.

This sounds very similar to a problem currently being discussed in a 
different thread 
(http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-03/threads.html#00448).  A suggestion 
there was to try a rebaseall.

Ken

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