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

Mateusz Malinowski mateusz.tomasz.malinowski@gmail.com
Thu Jan 16 09:33:00 GMT 2014


2014/1/15 Larry Hall:
> 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.

As I said, I don't have any errors while installing cygwin.



>> 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.

Ok, this upload site seems a bit dodgy. I try to attach .out file again.

> --
> Larry
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