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On 1/11/2010 3:58 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> On 01/11/2010 03:46 PM, Tod wrote:
>> I'm upgrading to 1.7.1 from the previous version which I was pretty good
>> at keeping up to date.
>>
>> I ran into a problem installing openssh which locked the install forcing
>> me to cancel. I stopped the openssh service and cygwin service and tried
>> again. It completed with me ok'ing past pointer errors on certain
>> packages from the previous install attempt. I restarted and now get the
>> message:
>>
>> "The procedure entry point __ctype_ptr__ could not be located in the
>> dynamic link library cygwin1.dll."
>>
>> I'm running XP service pack 2. I haven't rebooted the box yet so maybe
>> that has something to do with it? The thought was that reboot in Cygwin
>> terms was restarting Cygwin. I'll try the box now and report back 
>> tomorrow.
> 
> Not when you're dealing with an in-use version of cygwin1.dll during an 
> installation
> it's not.  Clearly what you're running into is postinstall scripts that 
> are running with
> updated tools accessing the older version of cygwin1.dll you have.  The 
> solution?
> Reboot and run 'setup.exe' again.  The postinstall scripts that didn't 
> already run
> will be run in the process. You don't need to reinstall any packages unless
> you ignored any of the error messages you got and allowed the 
> postinstall scripts
> to continue running.

Speaking of reinstall, if I did ignore those pesky error messages, is 
there a way to mark all my existing packages for update so I can rereun 
the setup again?  Kind of like an upgrade do over?


Thanks - Tod

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