Re: Installing error: cygwin1.dll not found

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Kevin Worrell wrote:

> > From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@XX.XXX.XXX>
> > Reply-To: cygwin@XXXXXX.XXX
> > To: cygwin@XXXXXX.XXX
> > CC: Kevin Worrell <nappyandashy@XXXXXXX.XXX>

<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>.  Thanks.

> > Subject: Re: Installing error: cygwin1.dll not found
> > Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 19:20:55 -0500 (EST)
> >
> > On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> >
> > > Kevin Worrell wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I recently installed cygwin on my Windows XP but when I try to run
> > > > cygwin I get an error saying "This application (bash.exe) has failed
> > > > to start because cygwin1.dll was not found.  Re-installing the
> > > > application may fix this problem."
> > > >
> > > > I also got a similar message during the initial installation and it
> > > > keeps coming up on attempted re-installations (when I tried
> > > > re-installing the default packages).  After checking the FAQs I
> > > > identified the cygwin1.dll in the cygwin package and have tried to
> > > > install it specifically on the Select Packages setup page by switching
> > > > the toggle button from "skip" to "1.5.18-1."  When I click next, the
> > > > setup detects additional dependent packages that need to be
> > > > downloaded, but when I continue I get one of the following two errors:
> > > >
> > > > "Fatal error: uncaught exception
> > > > Thread: install
> > > > Type: St16invalid_argument
> > > > Message: URL Scheme not registered!"
> > > >
> > > > or  "Can't open (null) for reading: no such file"
> > > >
> > > > What am I doing wrong?  I also found a similar problem in the mailing
> > > > list archives, entitled ?Error while installing cygwin? from Abhinav
> > > > Varshney, dated 11/5/05.  Thanks for any help that you can give.
> > > >
> > > > Additional info:
> > > > setup.exe version 2.510.2.2
> > > > cygwin dll release version 1.5.18-1
> > >
> > > How about cygcheck output as requested by:
> > >
> > > > Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
> > >
> > > As to the 'setup.exe' problem, was there anything "interesting" that
> > > showed up in setup.log or setup.log.full?
> >
> > For the 'setup.exe' problem, nothing interesting will show up in
> > setup.log* for the OP's version of setup.  Version 2.513-1-alpha[*] added
> > some interesting debugging info -- this should also show up in the next
> > setup snapshot, if and when it is built.
> > 	Igor
> > [*] <http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/cygwin/setup-2.513-1-alpha.exe>
>
> Yes, the beginning of the setup.log file looks like this:
>
> 2005/10/26 19:00:42 Starting cygwin install, version 2.510.2.2
                                                       ^^^^^^^^^
setup.log is accumulated across all setup runs.  You should move it out of
the way and run the newer setup version I mentioned -- you'll get a new
setup.log.

> 2005/10/26 19:00:42 io_stream_cygfile: fopen failed 2 No such file or directory
> 2005/10/26 19:00:42 io_stream_cygfile: fopen failed 2 No such file or directory
> 2005/10/26 19:00:42 io_stream_cygfile: fopen failed 2 No such file or directory
> 2005/10/26 19:00:42 io_stream_cygfile: fopen failed 2 No such file or directory

These messages are a result of a missing package database -- the newer
setup doesn't print them.

> 2005/10/26 19:00:42 Current Directory: C:\Documents and Settings\Kevin Worrell\Desktop
> 2005/10/26 19:00:42 Changing gid to Users
> 2005/10/26 19:00:42 Could not open service McShield for query, start and stop. McAfee may not be installed, or we don't have access.
> 2005/10/26 19:02:49 io_stream_cygfile: fopen failed 2 No such file or directory
> 2005/10/26 19:02:49 source: network install
> 2005/10/26 19:03:55 root: C:\cygwin binary system
> 2005/10/26 19:06:03 io_stream_cygfile: fopen failed 2 No such file or directory
> 2005/10/26 19:06:03 Selected local directory: C:\Program Files\Cygwin
> 2005/10/26 19:06:14 net: Direct
> 2005/10/26 19:06:28 io_stream_cygfile: fopen failed 2 No such file or directory
> 2005/10/26 19:06:28 site: ftp://cygwin.dp.ua/pub/mirrors/cygwin

Hmm, why are you installing from Ukraine? :-)

> 2005/10/26 19:07:34 io_stream_cygfile: fopen failed 2 No such file or directory
>
> I'm guessing maybe i need to start over fresh with installation, but i'm
> not really sure how to do that...

Does <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all> help?

> i'm working on the cygcheck...

What are the problems?
	Igor
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