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Re: setup.exe fails
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: a12 <a12 at swipnet dot se>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 22:59:41 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: setup.exe fails
- References: <420F7969.30307@swipnet.se>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, a12 wrote:
> Hello Cygwin gurus,
>
> I have just fetched all Cygwin updates to a local directory, and started
> setup.exe to install them.
> setup.exe fails with following error:
> uname.exe - Cannot find start address
> Cannot find procedure start address -impure_ptr in DLL file cygwin1.dll
> [snip similar messages from cygpath, echo, touch, cp, and install-info]
> What have I missed?
In addition to what Brian recommended, check that you've stopped all
services and exited all Cygwin processes before updating the Cygwin
package. Otherwise there's a possible conflict with a copy of the cygwin
DLL in memory.
Igor
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