/bin and /lib mount points occasionally lost

[Warren Young]

On 6/13/2012 5:32 PM, richw wrote:
>
> What was I doing? I rebooted the computer.

You're being pedantic.  I mean, what program(s) did you run before you 
noticed Cygwin stopped working, causing you to reboot to fix it?

I believe you are running something that fights with Cygwin somehow, and 
this other program is the culprit.

> I have 11 copies of cygwin1.dll.

There you go.  I refer you to the FAQ:

	http://cygwin.com/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.multiple-copies

I suggest you contact ST and the creators of uMIDI and DCRABBIT and tell 
them it is *not cool* to be shipping around copies of cygwin1.dll. 
Aside from being a probable license violation, it results in 
compatibility problems like you've run into.  They should simply be 
making Cygwin a dependency, then shipping Cygwin packages for you to 
install into your pre-existing Cygwin installation.

> is interesting because I probably downloaded it yesterday. It's
> possible I ran some program from that download, but I don't
> remember doing so. In the same directory is a file named arm-elf-objcopy.exe
> that uses cygwin1.dll, but I have never run it.

Bottom line, this constitutes a competing copy of Cygwin on the same 
system.  You can run one or the other, not both at the same time.

Again, yell at ST about this.  Lame or illegal, it matters not.  They 
shouldn't be doing it.

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