On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > 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?
Yes > >>>> 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? No results. I execute the program in a command window, current directory at c:\cygwin\bin, simply typed in the comand as above -- tried multiple times both with and without the redirection -- press enter, and the screen blinks and the command line returns. No output is displayed, or in the case of the redirection, no output is written to the output file. > > 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 > -- 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