1.5.18-1: Crash launching COMMAND.COM (W98)

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

Ingo Brueckl wrote:
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
> 
>>The above would indicate that you don't actually have cygwin installed
>>since there is nothing in your mount table and no packages listed. So,
>>this doesn't really help.
> 
> 
> It was from the cygwin-free W98 machine. Here is the output from the PC with
> cygwin installed (but remember that I had to do this from a Windows command
> line box, not from the cygwin shell where it won't work):


<snip>


>       Cygwin DLL version info:
>           DLL version: 1.5.19
>           DLL epoch: 19
>           DLL bad signal mask: 19005
>           DLL old termios: 5
>           DLL malloc env: 28
>           API major: 0
>           API minor: 149
>           Shared data: 4
>           DLL identifier: cygwin1
>           Mount registry: 2
>           Cygnus registry name: Cygnus Solutions
>           Cygwin registry name: Cygwin
>           Program options name: Program Options
>           Cygwin mount registry name: mounts v2
>           Cygdrive flags: cygdrive flags
>           Cygdrive prefix: cygdrive prefix
>           Cygdrive default prefix:
>           Build date: Tue Dec 27 16:47:46 EST 2005
>           Snapshot date: 20051227-16:45:51
>           Shared id: cygwin1S4
> 
>    1763k 2005/12/29 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\cygwin1.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
>                     "cygwin1.dll" v0.0 ts=2005/12/27 22:47
>       Cygwin DLL version info:
>           DLL version: 1.5.19
>           DLL epoch: 19
>           DLL bad signal mask: 19005
>           DLL old termios: 5
>           DLL malloc env: 28
>           API major: 0
>           API minor: 149
>           Shared data: 4
>           DLL identifier: cygwin1
>           Mount registry: 2
>           Cygnus registry name: Cygnus Solutions
>           Cygwin registry name: Cygwin
>           Program options name: Program Options
>           Cygwin mount registry name: mounts v2
>           Cygdrive flags: cygdrive flags
>           Cygdrive prefix: cygdrive prefix
>           Cygdrive default prefix:
>           Build date: Tue Dec 27 16:47:46 EST 2005
>           Snapshot date: 20051227-16:45:51
>           Shared id: cygwin1S4
> 
>   Warning: There are multiple cygwin1.dlls on your path
     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Yikes!

> 
> PS: Trying this with the cygwin shell, the error dialog box appears after:
> 
>       Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics
>       Current System Time: Wed Jan 04 00:17:17 2006
> 
>       Windows 98 SE Ver 4.10 Build 2222
> 
>       Path:	C:\Anwendungen\cygwin\usr\local\bin
>       	        C:\Anwendungen\cygwin\bin
>       	        C:\Anwendungen\cygwin\bin


See the warning above.  You'll be in much better shape if you get rid of
the copied DLL from the system directory.  No, I don't expect this to
fix all your problems but it will prevent new ones in the future.


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