Installing error: cygwin1.dll not found

[Kevin Worrell]

>From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>
>Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com
>To: cygwin@cygwin.com
>CC: Kevin Worrell <nappyandashy@hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: Installing error: cygwin1.dll not found
>Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 19:20:55 -0500 (EST)
>
>On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>
> > Kevin Worrell wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I recently installed cygwin on my Windows XP but when I try to run
> > > cygwin I get an error saying "This application (bash.exe) has failed
> > > to start because cygwin1.dll was not found.  Re-installing the
> > > application may fix this problem."
> > >
> > > I also got a similar message during the initial installation and it
> > > keeps coming up on attempted re-installations (when I tried
> > > re-installing the default packages).  After checking the FAQs I
> > > identified the cygwin1.dll in the cygwin package and have tried to
> > > install it specifically on the Select Packages setup page by switching
> > > the toggle button from "skip" to "1.5.18-1."  When I click next, the
> > > setup detects additional dependent packages that need to be
> > > downloaded, but when I continue I get one of the following two errors:
> > >
> > > "Fatal error: uncaught exception
> > > Thread: install
> > > Type: St16invalid_argument
> > > Message: URL Scheme not registered!"
> > >
> > > or  "Can't open (null) for reading: no such file"
> > >
> > > What am I doing wrong?  I also found a similar problem in the mailing
> > > list archives, entitled ?Error while installing cygwin? from Abhinav
> > > Varshney, dated 11/5/05.  Thanks for any help that you can give.
> > >
> > > Additional info:
> > > setup.exe version 2.510.2.2
> > > cygwin dll release version 1.5.18-1
> >
> > How about cygcheck output as requested by:
> >
> > > Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
> >
> > As to the 'setup.exe' problem, was there anything "interesting" that
> > showed up in setup.log or setup.log.full?
>
>For the 'setup.exe' problem, nothing interesting will show up in
>setup.log* for the OP's version of setup.  Version 2.513-1-alpha[*] added
>some interesting debugging info -- this should also show up in the next
>setup snapshot, if and when it is built.
>	Igor
>[*] <http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/cygwin/setup-2.513-1-alpha.exe>
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Yes, the beginning of the setup.log file looks like this:

2005/10/26 19:00:42 Starting cygwin install, version 2.510.2.2
2005/10/26 19:00:42 io_stream_cygfile: fopen failed 2 No such file or 
directory
2005/10/26 19:00:42 io_stream_cygfile: fopen failed 2 No such file or 
directory
2005/10/26 19:00:42 io_stream_cygfile: fopen failed 2 No such file or 
directory
2005/10/26 19:00:42 io_stream_cygfile: fopen failed 2 No such file or 
directory
2005/10/26 19:00:42 Current Directory: C:\Documents and Settings\Kevin 
Worrell\Desktop
2005/10/26 19:00:42 Changing gid to Users
2005/10/26 19:00:42 Could not open service McShield for query, start and 
stop. McAfee may not be installed, or we don't have access.
2005/10/26 19:02:49 io_stream_cygfile: fopen failed 2 No such file or 
directory
2005/10/26 19:02:49 source: network install
2005/10/26 19:03:55 root: C:\cygwin binary system
2005/10/26 19:06:03 io_stream_cygfile: fopen failed 2 No such file or 
directory
2005/10/26 19:06:03 Selected local directory: C:\Program Files\Cygwin
2005/10/26 19:06:14 net: Direct
2005/10/26 19:06:28 io_stream_cygfile: fopen failed 2 No such file or 
directory
2005/10/26 19:06:28 site: ftp://cygwin.dp.ua/pub/mirrors/cygwin
2005/10/26 19:07:34 io_stream_cygfile: fopen failed 2 No such file or 
directory

I'm guessing maybe i need to start over fresh with installation, but i'm not 
really sure how to do that... i'm working on the cygcheck...

Kevin

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