On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 08:51:38AM -0700, John Guad wrote: >On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 8:49 AM, John Guad wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Christopher Faylor >wrote: >>> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 08:58:17PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>>>On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 05:46:08PM -0700, John Guad wrote: >>>>>I googled that message about base mismash and all the evidence points >>>>>to cygwin1.dll being the issue but there's nothing useful about fixing >>>>>it. The only instance of that dll on this machine is the one >>>>>downloaded and installed by the setup.exe program, so it doesn't make >>>>>sense to think it's a bad version. >>>> >>>>People often say that but most of the time they find that there is >>>>another version of the dll lurking somewhere on the system, like in >>>>c:\windows\system32 . >>> > > I did a search using the built-in windows search tool ('search > companion' ... gotta love XP), selected target "all hard drives" which > in my case is just one - "c:\", search term "cygwin", and it tells me > that there is one and only one "cygwin1.dll" file anywhere on my > machine, located in c:\cygwin\bin.
Did you search for hidden files? >>> I forgot to mention: >>> VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV >>>>Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html >>> >>> You should be able to run the cygcheck program from a windows command >>> shell without causing the kind of problem that you're reporting. >>> > > Running the cygcheck program ("cygcheck -s -v -r > cygcheck.out") > results in an empty (zero byte) file. No output. What does running cygcheck without the redirection do? cgf -- 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