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 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple