either nothing or cygheap base mismatch error

[Ken Brown]

On 3/5/2010 5:18 PM, Eugen Zalinescu wrote:
>>> My problem is that I cannot start cygwin (with Cygwin.bat). Actually
>>> any cygwin application finishes as soon as I invoke it (or in about
>>> 1sec), with no output, as in
>>>   D:\cygwin\bin>  bash
>>>
>>>   D:\cygwin\bin>
>>>
>>> However, sometimes (I cannot reproduce the behavior), I obtain a
>>> "cygheap base mismatch detected" error.
>>>
>>> I attach a cygcheck.out file and the setup.log for a "fresh"
>>> installation (I didn't uninstall my previous installation, which was
>>> working fine some time ago, but just put it elsewhere; it is said that
>>> this should be OK in 1.7.1. Anyhow, I have same behavior with both the
>>> new and old installation).
>>>
>>> There do not seem to be other versions of cygwin1.dll in the system,
>>> and I obtain the same behavior after deactivating the anti-virus; and
>>> I don't have any other program from the BLODA neither.
>>>
>>> Any hints are welcomed.
>>
>> Make sure you stopped all the previously running Cygwin services before
>> installing.  From what I see in the setup log, the postinstall scripts
>> didn't run, so nothing is configured properly.  Try re-running setup.exe
>> after rebooting and stopping any Cygwin services.
>
> I took a look at the running services and it does seem to be any
> Cygwin service running (and anyhow, I don't remember starting one).
> Anyway, I did reboot, and then re-ran setup.exe, but it got stuck
> running the postinstall/passwd-grp.sh script.
> I attach setup.log.postinstallXa03940 which contains some errors that
> seem related to this.

The log says that you probably have incompatible versions of 
cygwin1.dll.  The cygcheck output in your earlier post also gave a 
warning about multiple cygwin1.dlls in your path.  Did you search for these?

I see that you have the native windows version of texlive installed. 
That might be where the extra cygwin1.dll is coming from (if you have 
the asymptote package installed).

Ken

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