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On 6/13/2012 11:19 AM, richw wrote:
>
> I occasionally find that cygwin is broken, and I find that /usr/bin and
> /usr/lib no longer are useful.

It would help if you could pin down what you were doing before Cygwin 
breaks each time.

Can you please search your entire hard drive for a second copy of 
cygwin1.dll?  There should only be one, in c:\cygwin\bin.  If you find 
others, tell us their paths.

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