From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15489 invoked by alias); 27 Feb 2012 14:47:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 15479 invoked by uid 22791); 27 Feb 2012 14:47:43 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-pw0-f43.google.com (HELO mail-pw0-f43.google.com) (209.85.160.43) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:47:20 +0000 Received: by pbbro2 with SMTP id ro2so5792750pbb.2 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2012 06:47:20 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of marco.atzeri@gmail.com designates 10.68.197.71 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.68.197.71; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of marco.atzeri@gmail.com designates 10.68.197.71 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=marco.atzeri@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=marco.atzeri@gmail.com Received: from mr.google.com ([10.68.197.71]) by 10.68.197.71 with SMTP id is7mr39979529pbc.33.1330354040515 (num_hops = 1); Mon, 27 Feb 2012 06:47:20 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.68.197.71 with SMTP id is7mr34065577pbc.33.1330354040473; Mon, 27 Feb 2012 06:47:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.5.8.52] ([210.19.149.8]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id m5sm12863438pbo.69.2012.02.27.06.47.18 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 27 Feb 2012 06:47:19 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4F4B9772.6030005@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:47:00 -0000 From: marco atzeri User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/10.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: most recent xfig-3.2.5b-2 broken. References: <4B30AD0BED19E842AAE88DC3973649314F600A1537@mail3.walsh.edu> <4F497F79.6090500@gmail.com> <4B30AD0BED19E842AAE88DC3973649314F6327B7B1@mail3.walsh.edu> <4F4B81A2.6000507@gmail.com> <4B30AD0BED19E842AAE88DC3973649314F6327B7B2@mail3.walsh.edu> In-Reply-To: <4B30AD0BED19E842AAE88DC3973649314F6327B7B2@mail3.walsh.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2012-02/txt/msg00061.txt.bz2 On 2/27/2012 3:35 PM, George Barrick wrote: >>> The message that I get is: >>> >>> gbarrick@TS207 ~/jpegs/figs >>> $ octave >>> /usr/bin/octave-3.6.1.exe: error while loading shared libraries: >>> ?: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory >> >> now you triggered all my attention as octave package maintainer >> >> try this >> >> $ cd /bin >> $ strace -o /tmp/octave.strace octave-3.6.1.exe --version >> >> it should open a system message window mentioning what is missing >> >> regards >> Marco > > Subj: most recent xfig-3.2.5b-2 broken. > > Hi Marco, > > I ran strace on the octave-3.6.1.exe and > got an empty message file. of course, octave process never started :-) However, that strace > terminated with a WinXP error alert box that > said: > > octav-3.6.1.exe - Unable to locate component > [ > [ This application has failed to start because > [ D:\Program Files\AlwilSoftware\Avast\snxhk.dll > [ was not found. Re-installing the application > [ may fix this problem. > [ > > I guess that something is seriously screwed-up if > my octave is trying to access a .dll from my > antivirus program. I did install a program > upgrade from Avast on Friday. It seems to be > a bit more intrusive than the previous versions. > However, my upgrade to octave-3.6.1 did not occur > until this morning. > > George gbarrick_at_walsh_dot_edu Hi George, probably octave is just the victim of Avast I suspect the your antivirus is screwing up cygwin in general. Probably it tries to inject a dll in the dll chain does "D:\Program Files\AlwilSoftware\Avast\snxhk.dll" exist ? Regards Marco -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/