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Re: cygwin install failed, need help troubleshooting
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:58:17 -0400
- Subject: Re: cygwin install failed, need help troubleshooting
- References: <CACr88HM7G2kEN0QOJnBThBkcn4cqtb8SROvhQaiEp8c+U-nULA at mail dot gmail dot com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
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 .
cgf
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