cygheap version mismatch ?

Larry Hall lh-no-personal-replies-please@cygwin.com
Sun Feb 13 09:06:00 GMT 2005


At 10:58 AM 2/12/2005, you wrote:

>It looks like I have managed to screw up my cygwin installation
>more or less completely :o(
>
>What I did: I was trying out some of the latest snapshots, and
>noticed that KDE would not start with them. So I kept trying,
>changing back and forth between the different cygwin1.dll files,
>rebooting and running rebaseall -v between tries.
>
>Result: Now, whenever I try starting XWin (whether with KDE or
>without) it will fail with the message such as the following:
>
>C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\XWin.exe (4056): *** cygheap version
>   mismatch detected - 0x61790000/0x1010000.
>You have multiple copies of cygwin1.dll on your system.
>Search for cygwin1.dll using the Windows Start->Find/Search facility
>and delete all but the most recent version.  The most recent version *should*
>reside in x:\cygwin\bin, where 'x' is the drive on which you have
>installed the cygwin distribution.
>
>I have tried putting the original cygwin1.dll back, including
>reboot and rebaseall -v, but still the same results.
>
>As it is, the only thing I can do is run bash in a dos window.
>
>There are definitely no multiple copies of that file. I renamed
>all the other snapshopts to <something_else>._dll and searched all
>disks.
>
>Any pointers or advice would be greatly appreciated.

Start here:

>Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html


Also, did you start any Cygwin services? 



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