From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25827 invoked by alias); 23 Oct 2002 02:00:34 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 25820 invoked from network); 23 Oct 2002 02:00:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO redhat.com) (66.30.22.225) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 23 Oct 2002 02:00:33 -0000 Received: by redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 201) id 8D21E1BF2E; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 22:02:20 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 00:22:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: snapshots R us Message-ID: <20021023020220.GC24001@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20021023002605.GA2785@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2002-10/txt/msg01393.txt.bz2 On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 08:52:50PM -0500, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: >Just installed it (WinXP), getting this: > >c:\WINDOWS>uname >c:\unix\bin\uname.exe: *** shared version mismatch detected - 0xBC3E/0x3E. >You have multiple copies of cygwin1.dll on your system. >Search for cygwin1.dll using the Windows Start->Find/Search facility >and delete all but the most recent version. The most recent version *should* >reside in x:\cygwin\bin, where 'x' is the drive on which you have >installed the cygwin distribution. > >No multiple copies of cygwin1.dll on my system. But there is a cygwin process running somewhere. Otherwise you wouldn't be getting this error. This indicates that cygwin's shared memory is already initialized, which wouldn't be the case if you run 'uname' from the command prompt as the only cygwin process on the system. The last resort is rebooting if nothing else works. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/