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I had not updated my Cygwin installation for a couple of months, not since the major changes to Cygwin/X, because I was afraid of breaking X. I decided to bite the bullet today, so I shutdown all my Cygwin processes including cygrunsrv, ran setup.exe, selected my usual download site, ftp://cygwin.osuosl.org, and began downloading and installing the screen-and-a-half worth of updates. Part way through the process, I started getting errors about entry points in cygwin1.dll not being found. I clicked OK to each of them and setup.exe finally finished. However, when I tried to open a bash window, I got more error messages and could not run bash. (I know the messages would probably help here, but I figured the installation was seriously borked and all I had to do was figure out why and fix it, so I didn't record them all.) I tried running setup.exe again, hoping it would detect and correct any missing files, but it just said no updates were found. I tried forcing a reinstall of just the cygwin package through setup.exe, but doing so made no difference. I also tried running setup.exe and selecting other mirrors, but all those I tried said that their something.ini was older than mine. I copied a cygwin1.dll from a working installation to the broken one and that allowed me to get a bash prompt, but there was a message about something in /etc that could be found or run, my PATH did not include any of the usual Cygwin directories, and the bash prompt was something like "bash3.2$" instead of the usual "<user>@<host> <pwd>\n$". I am attaching the result of "cygcheck -srv" in the hope that that will be sufficient for someone to find the problem. I could completely uninstall Cygwin and reinstall it, but I would like to avoid that if I could, largely because I have customizations in $HOME, /etc and /usr/local. These problems seem similar to those reported by Ken Fuchs earlier today in "Several problems upgrading cygwin & cygwin/x on Feb. 3-4 via kernel.org mirror", especially the occurrences of pop-up windows containing the message, "The procedure entry point strtoimax could not be located in the dynamic link library cygwin1.dll." However, there were enough differences that I thought this should be a separate thread. Regards, Gary
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