cygwin install failed, need help troubleshooting

Wed May 1 15:51:00 GMT 2013

On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 8:49 AM, John Guad wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Christopher Faylor
wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 08:58:17PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>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 .
>>
 I did a search using the built-in windows search tool ('search
 companion' ... gotta love XP), selected target "all hard drives" which
 in my case is just one - "c:\", search term "cygwin", and it tells me
 that there is one and only one "cygwin1.dll" file anywhere on my
 machine, located in c:\cygwin\bin.
>> I forgot to mention:
>> VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV
>>>Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
>>>> You should be able to run the cygcheck program from a windows command
>> shell without causing the kind of problem that you're reporting.
>>
 Running the cygcheck program ("cygcheck -s -v -r > cygcheck.out")
 results in an empty (zero byte) file. No output.
 Any other ideas or suggestions?
 thanks,
 John
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