Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: Chris Faylor Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 16:17:50 -0400 To: cygwin Cc: Peter.Bienstman@rug.ac.be Subject: Re: Lyx/corrupted shared regions Message-ID: <20000807161750.H12330@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin , Peter.Bienstman@rug.ac.be References: <00b401c0007b$9e44cba0$0454c19d@intec.rug.ac.be> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.6i In-Reply-To: <00b401c0007b$9e44cba0$0454c19d@intec.rug.ac.be>; from Peter.Bienstman@rug.ac.be on Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 04:27:29PM +0200 On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 04:27:29PM +0200, Peter Bienstman wrote: >I have troubles running Lyx. When I start it, I get the following error >message: > >C:\usr\local\lyx\bin>runlyx.bat >"Starting LyX/Win32 ..." >C:\usr\local\lyx\external\sh.exe: *** shared region is corrupted. inited >140 [main] ? 0 lock_pinfo_for_update: rc 0, pinfo_mutex 0xFFFFFFFF, Win32 >error 6 > >Digging through the mailing lists revealed that these errors are usually due >to multiple copies of the dll's. However, running cygcheck, I found out that >there is only one set of dll's, but that they are found twice, once under >the dos-path c:\bin, and once under the posix path \bin. The error isn't usually due to multiple copies of the DLL. It is *always* due to this. I'd search your whole system for cygwin1.dll. There is undoubtedly an older one lurking around somewhere. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com