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Subject: Re: bash.exe: *** fatal error - couldn't dynamically determine load address for 'GetKeyboardLayout'
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On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 06:24:40PM +0200, Thorkil Naur wrote:
>Hello merry Cygwin'ers,
>
>On a recently installed Cygwin (version 1.7.7-1 according to setup.exe),
>the Cygwin bash shell fails to start. Details become visible when
>starting bash.exe from an ordinary command prompt:
>
>> C:\cygwin>bin\bash.exe --login -i
>>       3 [main] bash 1928 C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - couldn't dynamically determine load address for 'GetKeyboardLayout' (handle 0x7E410000), Win32 error 127
>> Stack trace:
>> Frame     Function  Args
>> 002238B8  6102749B  (002238B8, 00000000, 00000000, 00223938)
>> 00223BA8  6102749B  (61177B80, 00008000, 00000000, 61179977)
>> 00224BD8  61004AFB  (610011A0, 611575DC, 7E410000, 61033DBC)
>> End of stack trace

First guess would be that you may have a virus, BLODA* or something else
which has modified a system dll.  This function should be available
in Windows XP.

The cygcheck output that we request here:  http://cygwin.com/problems.html
might provide more insight.

cgf

*http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#BLODA

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