unable to run any cygwin commands: error while loading shared libraries: C

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 1/15/2014 10:11 AM, Mateusz Malinowski wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a problem similar to one described in "error while loading
> shared libraries: ?: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
> directory" thread, though in my case I can't run any cygwin commands
> (i.e. I can't even open cygwin's bash).

So you're clearly missing a DLL.  Presuming your installation went
OK and you saw no complaints from the postinstall scripts, try
'cygcheck bash' and see if it complains about some missing DLL(s).
If it does, use cygcheck or 'http://cygwin.com/packages/' to find the
package with that DLL.  Install that/those packages.

> I am aware that in that thread the problem was solved due to
> anti-software, however; in my company we all use the same anti-virus
> and I'm the only one having this issue with cygwin. I uploaded
> cygcheck.out and cygcheck.err files together with stackdumfiles (it
> couldn't execute id and cygrunsrv), in case they might be helpful
> (couldn't send them attached due to 552 spam score):
> http://speedy.sh/QR2QZ/files.zip

If 'id' won't run, this makes me think your installation failed.  You
can try just rerunning 'setup*.exe' and reinstall.   Watch for errors.

> Cygwin worked normally for me in the past. I believe that something
> might have messed up when I was installing some other software on my
> machine, but I have no idea what it might have been. I tried to delete
> cygwin and manually clear all references to it in the register, but
> still, after installing, it doesn't work.

OK, I get the same feeling as I mentioned above from this.

> Also the interesting thing is that cygcheck reports 3 cygwin1.dll,
> although there is only one on my machine.

As long as they all reference the same DLL in the same physical location
(mount paths not-withstanding), that's fine.

> I'm looking forward to any solution anyone can provide. I must admit
> that I ran out of options.

If none of the above helps, please *attach* 'cygcheck -srv' output to
any follow-up.  I tried to look at the zip file you reference above but
it is invalid.

-- 
Larry

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