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Re: system shared memory mismatch problem
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 05:39:59PM -0700, Akula, Murali wrote:
>>On 07/02/2008, Akula, Murali wrote:
>>>I tried searching with 'Search Hiden Files & Folders' checked. It
>>>still shows only one cygwin1.dll
>>
>>Then try "Process Explorer". Grab it from sysinternals.com. With
>>that, you can find out what process is running cygwin1.dll and where it
>>is.
>
>Great tool!! Thanks. Tried it. I ran rxvt from the new cygwin
>installation and that's what's showing up (and sh) as using the
>cygwin1.dll. The one from c:\cygwin\bin is being used by these apps.
>If I exit rxvt, then there's no other process using the cygwin1.dll.
>
>Looks like there is no other version of cygwin1.dll running. Do I have
>something really corrupted.
>
>I was actually wondering how can I run rxvt and some other tools, while
>I cannot run X, etc.. Do they use shared memory differently? Or not
>make the version checks?
If you can run rxvt but not X that would suggest that you are running
some other version of X than the standard cygwin version which has its
own cygwin1.dll. Do you have other web downloaded packages installed?
Possibly the cygcheck output mentioned at http://cygwin.com/problems.html
would be more instructive.
Also check out BLODA: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#BLODA .
cgf
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