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Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:00:20 -0500
From: "Larry Hall \(Cygwin\)" <reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
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On 1/31/2011 2:16 PM, Gerry Reno wrote:
> On 01/31/2011 01:55 PM, Gerry Reno wrote:
>> In my case, I installed cygwin a few months ago and yesterday I went to
>> upgrade it and install several packages.
>>
>> As it was going along it said that cygwin1.dll was busy so I pressed
>> Continue and at the end it said a reboot was required.  And so I
>> rebooted the machine.
>>
>> When I logged back in,  cygwin was not behaving correctly.  ls, find,
>> cat, cp, maybe more commands were not functioning correctly.
>>
>> The was after upgrading to 1.7.7.  When I check cygcheck output it shows
>> cygwin1.dll as 1.7.5.
>>
>> If I try and run strace, it fails with an error about a missing symbol.
>>
>> There were also a number of errors showing for postinstall scripts.
>>
>> Where in this process did either I or the install go wrong?
>
> Also, we have cygrunsrv operating services if that could have any
> bearing on this.

This is why you got the complaint about cygwin1.dll being busy.

When you did the upgrade, did you download the current 'setup.exe' from
cygwin.com?

-- 
Larry

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A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?

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