Installing error: cygwin1.dll not found

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

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?

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