On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Richard Querin wrote:
>> >> I have seen this mention of cygwin1.dll being in the windows\system32 >> directory several times during cygwin upgrades and installations. >> However each time the dialog comes up and I choose to delete it, it >> says it can't. And whenever (including now) I manually check the >> system32 directory, both from the command line and with Windows >> Explorer, I don't see the cygwin1.dll file in there. I'm not sure why >> it's saying it's in there when it's clearly not. > > Make sure you're not hiding system DLLs, etc. > >> However, Warren's mention of Sonic might be of use. I do have a Sonic >> product installed, so I'm going to try and get rid of it and try >> again. There are a few local copies of cygwin1.dll on my system. (one >> for a pdfmerge program I use for instance). Will deleting those local >> copies render the programs non-functional? > > Keep the path to 'cygwin1.dll' in your path and you'll have no problem. > > -- > Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com > RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office > 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX > Holliston, MA 01746 > Thanks for all the help. I went over and over this machine looking for the cygwin1.dll file in the system32 directory but it wouldn't show up. I have explorer set to show me all system and hidden files too, but it wouldn't show up. On a whim, I decided to use my cygwin bash shell to check out the folder myself and lo and behold after doing an ls -la c*.dll command, there it was.. with an unidentifiable time and date. It was marked read-only and I deleted it. Problem solved! Thanks again. ps - I removed all the Sonic products as well as disabled McAfee and Windows Defender, but doing this didn't solve the problem either. It was definitely the hidden dll file. RQ -- 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/
