cygwin install failed, need help troubleshooting

[Christopher Faylor]

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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