On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Eric I. Arnoth wrote: > I ran the cygwin setup.exe to install inet_utils, and found that a good > number of cygwin apps got upgraded without my asking it to. > The "default" option in setup means "upgrade it if I already have it and it is out-of-date." So, maybe you asked for it but didn't know it?
> I then found every Cygwin app calling the error > > "main] ? 2988 shared_info::initialize: size of shared memory region > >changed from 21008 to 47112" > Did setup ask you to reboot? Try it. Your problem may then disappear :). > After some judicious Googling, I found the following message explaining the > problem as running two different versions of Cygwin at the same time: > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-01/msg00436.html > Good man. > My only question is, how do I remedy this? > Simple. Try the above first. If that doesn't work, search your entire hard drive[s] for cygwin1.dll, and remove the one that is not in \bin. > Do I need to uninstall and reinstall everything? > Nope. > Is there a quick & easy way to clean this up wtihout such a major overhaul? > Yep. See above. -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International Phone: 314-551-8460 Fax: 314-551-8444 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/