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On 10/11/2012 5:07 AM, Josef Wolf wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 04:55:14PM +0200, marco atzeri wrote:
>> in this case
>>
>> cygwin                                   1.7.16-1                      OK
> [ ... ]
>> DLL version: 1.7.15
>>
>> so if reboot does not work, than Josef you need to re-install the
>> cygwin- 1.7.16-1   package
>
> Yeah, the version mismatch was the problem. Reboot did not help, reinstalling
> cygwin package did the trick. Thanks!
>
> In addition, I had to reinstall the texlive-collection-latex package, because
> pdftex.pool file was broken. I guess this was because the postinstall script
> was run with the wrong version of cygwin DLL.
>
> Now I'm a little bit unsure: is there any way to check which postinstall
> scirpts were run with the wrong DLL version and might therefore have broken?
> Probably not?

You can look at /var/log/setup.log.full for indications of problems with 
postinstall scripts.  You can also check /etc/postinstall to see if 
there are scripts that don't have '.done' appended to their names.

Ken


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