X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 20:45:43 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: system shared memory mismatch problem Message-ID: <20080703004543.GA376@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <486C1F28 DOT 6090200 AT cygwin DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 05:39:59PM -0700, Akula, Murali wrote: >>On 07/02/2008, Akula, Murali wrote: >>>I tried searching with 'Search Hiden Files & Folders' checked. It >>>still shows only one cygwin1.dll >> >>Then try "Process Explorer". Grab it from sysinternals.com. With >>that, you can find out what process is running cygwin1.dll and where it >>is. > >Great tool!! Thanks. Tried it. I ran rxvt from the new cygwin >installation and that's what's showing up (and sh) as using the >cygwin1.dll. The one from c:\cygwin\bin is being used by these apps. >If I exit rxvt, then there's no other process using the cygwin1.dll. > >Looks like there is no other version of cygwin1.dll running. Do I have >something really corrupted. > >I was actually wondering how can I run rxvt and some other tools, while >I cannot run X, etc.. Do they use shared memory differently? Or not >make the version checks? If you can run rxvt but not X that would suggest that you are running some other version of X than the standard cygwin version which has its own cygwin1.dll. Do you have other web downloaded packages installed? Possibly the cygcheck output mentioned at http://cygwin.com/problems.html would be more instructive. Also check out BLODA: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#BLODA . cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/