Re: either nothing or cygheap base mismatch error

[Eugen Zalinescu <eugen dot zalinescu at gmail dot com>]

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:01 PM, Eugen Zalinescu
<eugen.zalinescu@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 2:43 AM, Eugen Zalinescu
> <eugen.zalinescu@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> My problem is that I cannot start cygwin (with Cygwin.bat). Actually
>> any cygwin application finishes as soon as I invoke it (or in about
>> 1sec), with no output, as in
>> ?D:\cygwin\bin> bash
>>
>> ?D:\cygwin\bin>
>>
>> However, sometimes (I cannot reproduce the behavior), I obtain a
>> "cygheap base mismatch detected" error.
>>
>> I attach a cygcheck.out file and the setup.log for a "fresh"
>> installation (I didn't uninstall my previous installation, which was
>> working fine some time ago, but just put it elsewhere; it is said that
>> this should be OK in 1.7.1. Anyhow, I have same behavior with both the
>> new and old installation).
>>
>> There do not seem to be other versions of cygwin1.dll in the system,
>> and I obtain the same behavior after deactivating the anti-virus; and
>> I don't have any other program from the BLODA neither.
>>
>> Any hints are welcomed.
>
> Make sure you stopped all the previously running Cygwin services before
> installing. ?From what I see in the setup log, the postinstall scripts
> didn't run, so nothing is configured properly. ?Try re-running setup.exe
> after rebooting and stopping any Cygwin services.

I took a look at the running services and it does seem to be any
Cygwin service running (and anyhow, I don't remember starting one).
Anyway, I did reboot, and then re-ran setup.exe, but it got stuck
running the postinstall/passwd-grp.sh script.
I attach setup.log.postinstallXa03940 which contains some errors that
seem related to this.

-Eugen
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