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Re: cygwin install failed, need help troubleshooting


On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 08:58:17PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 05:46:08PM -0700, John Guad wrote:
>>I googled that message about base mismash and all the evidence points
>>to cygwin1.dll being the issue but there's nothing useful about fixing
>>it.  The only instance of that dll on this machine is the one
>>downloaded and installed by the setup.exe program, so it doesn't make
>>sense to think it's a bad version.
>
>People often say that but most of the time they find that there is
>another version of the dll lurking somewhere on the system, like in
>c:\windows\system32 .

I forgot to mention:
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>Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html

You should be able to run the cygcheck program from a windows command
shell without causing the kind of problem that you're reporting.

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