Error when starting Cygwin shell: init_cygheap error

[Stan Berka <sberka@poptal.com>]

Hi,
I have the same problem as in the January thread cited below: 

when starting the Cygwin shell I'm getting an error:

   9 [main] bash 2040 init_cygheap::etc_changed: Can't open /etc for  
checking, Win32 error 1

I have checked that I don't have two cygwin1.dll in my PATH. When I
rename the cygwin1.dll in the /bin directory to something else, I'm
getting a message that cygwin1.dll is missing. So what can be the
problem?

BTW, when I do "which cygwin1.dll" from the shell it tells me: 
/usr/bin/cygwin1.dll
There is no /usr/bin.  Is this a part of the problem?

Stan Berka, Pope & Talbot Inc.

---- Thread about the same problem ----
From: Corinna Vinschen 
To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:08:51 +0100
Subject: Re: Cygwin 1.3.6 on NT 4.0: init_cygheap error
References: <3C3D8B15.4D0A49C7@email.sps.mot.com>
<3C3D9EA8.5070101@syntrex.com>

On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 03:01:12PM +0100, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
> Markus Brenner wrote:
> >For compatibility and historical reasons the B20 release is also 
installed
> >on the same machine (I am not sure whether this has any influence on the
> >above described problem).
>
>
> This is not good. I'm not 100 % sure if this is connected to your
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Right! Never have two copies of cygwin1.dll in the DLL search path.
Even worse if they have diverging versions.
Corinna
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