From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 83995 invoked by alias); 23 Sep 2016 22:31:58 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 83982 invoked by uid 89); 23 Sep 2016 22:31:56 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_40,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=forsyth, Forsyth, H*f:n5oBEgwu1psj, H*f:sk:Mm_7-jt X-HELO: limerock02.mail.cornell.edu Received: from limerock02.mail.cornell.edu (HELO limerock02.mail.cornell.edu) (128.84.13.242) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 23 Sep 2016 22:31:55 +0000 X-CornellRouted: This message has been Routed already. Received: from authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (granite3.serverfarm.cornell.edu [10.16.197.8]) by limerock02.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4_cu) with ESMTP id u8NMVqqG031248 for ; Fri, 23 Sep 2016 18:31:53 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.5] (mta-68-175-148-36.twcny.rr.com [68.175.148.36] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id u8NMVprd013076 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Fri, 23 Sep 2016 18:31:52 -0400 Subject: Re: The procedure entry point could not be located in cygwin1.dll To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: From: Ken Brown Message-ID: <253517ce-bfb4-499b-c5e9-25089f0a8a58@cornell.edu> Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 22:35:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Cornell-Gauge: Gauge=XXXXX X-PMX-CORNELL-AUTH-RESULTS: dkim-out=none; X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-09/txt/msg00302.txt.bz2 On 9/23/2016 4:50 PM, William Forsyth wrote: > I broke my win XP cygwin install such that bash fails to start. > > I used Setup.exe version 2.870. > > The install failed when trying to run the postinstall bash scripts. > > After the install failure bash fails every time with: > > The procedure entry point __locale_ctype_ptr could not be located in > the dynamic link library cygwin1.dll. > > > The install failed because it tried to install cygwin 2.6.0 which is > not compatible with winxp. > > > I reran Setup.exe to grab cygwin version 2.5.2-1 but the install still > fails with the same cygwin1.dll error. > > > Already tried to grab cygwin version 2.5.0 (which is the last known > good cygwin version that ran on my machine) from the time machine, but > I keep getting the same cygwin1.dll error. Any ideas how to fix this. You probably have a version of bash that was built for cygwin-2.6.0. Try reverting bash to whatever release was current just before cygwin-2.6.0 was released. Ken -- 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