Ari Halberstadt wrote: > Every program I've tried in my cygwin installation (1.5.25-15) gives > base mismatch errors on my Vista Home Premium 32-bit system. Cygwin was > working fine but then I uninstalled Symantec AV (free trial ran out) and > installed BitDefender instead, and then cygwin stopped working with this > error (everything other than cygwin continues to work).
BitDefender seems to break Cygwin. There's a detailed explanation of how AV and firewall apps can sometimes cause problems for Cygwin at http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda but in short: it hooks into the OS and does bad stuff that interferes with other applications, of which Cygwin is one. Also, they got haxored :-P lol. > help. I downloaded a completely new version and installed fresh, but > still the same problem. Running rebaseall fails with a similar error. > I'm stumped and can find nothing on the Internet to help. The closest > was an old unsolved post from 2006, "Cygwin on Vista", Probably not the same issue. I googled "cygwin bitdefender", the first entry read "My cygwin environment was working fine until I loaded BitDefender Internet Security 2009". There's a couple of possible workarounds listed in this thread on the bitdefender forum: http://forum.bitdefender.com/index.php?showtopic=8687 that seem to help for some people by disabling the most intrusive parts of the BD functionality. > Here's what bin/rebaseall says when run from ash, which itself was run > from a Windows command prompt: Rebaseall can't usually help with BLODA. (However, once you get back up and running you should probably do a rebaseall anyway, in case that attempt managed to run long enough to start modifying any DLLs.) cheers, DaveK -- 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/