X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2009 18:53:33 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: No go after update to 1.7.1 Message-ID: <20091225235333.GC29164@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <6c18a4f0912251015k48ff2266l8fca37fc2543772e AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6c18a4f0912251015k48ff2266l8fca37fc2543772e@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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 Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 07:15:57PM +0100, Bernd Bartmann wrote: >Hi, > >I just updated my old cygwin installation to the new version 1.7.1. >I'm running it on a German WinXP SP3. The installation process went >without any problem or error message, but now if I try to start cygwin >using the desktop icon a command window appears for a short time and >then goes away again. Even if I try to start the cygwin.bat from a cmd >window I just end up in C:\cygwin\bin, but no bash is started at all. > >Then I followed the instructions from >http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all to >uninstall cygwin, rebooted and installed 1.7.1 again. But again, >cygwin does not work. > >Any ideas? That may be the symptom of two different versions of the DLL existing on your system. See: http://cygwin.com/problems.html for more information on how to track down Cygwin problems. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple