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Re: Perl-5.10 on a fresh install reports unable to remap Glob.dll


2008/7/9 Dave Wombat:
> On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Reini Urban <rurban@x-ray.at> wrote:
>> Dave Wombat schrieb:
>>>
>>> I did a fresh install of Cygwin on a Vista box.  I needed to add some
>>> Perl modules so I ran
>>>   Perl -MCPAN -e shell
>>>
>>> After the install began I got errors about remap.  Scanning the
>>> archives showed that "rebase"
>>> would help.  Further scanning shows that "rebase" is built into
>>> install and no longer directly available.
>>
>> This is wrong. rebaseall is still required, and for perl very likely.
>> I did a fresh rebaseall at base 0x52000000 onwards, but there are some still
>> some clashes.
>>
>> Install the rebase package and follow the instructions in its README. In
>> short: kill all bash processes and run rebaseall from ash
>> --
>> Reini Urban
>> http://phpwiki.org/  http://murbreak.at/
>
> Still no happiness.   I followed the instructions to best of my ability and got:
>
> $ exec /bin/ash
> \[\e]0;\w\a\]\n\[\e[32m\]\u@\h \[\e[33m\]\w\[\e[0m\]\n\$

The cure for this problem is unset PS1

> $ rebaseall
> ReBaseImage (/usr/bin/cygiconv-2.dll) failed with last error = 6

Be sure that cygiconv-2.dll is writable.
$ chmod +w /bin/*.dll

> \[\e]0;\w\a\]\n\[\e[32m\]\u@\h \[\e[33m\]\w\[\e[0m\]\n\$
> \[\e]0;\w\a\]\n\[\e[32m\]\u@\h \[\e[33m\]\w\[\e[0m\]\n\$ ps -ef
>     UID     PID    PPID TTY     STIME COMMAND
>  wombat    8096       1 con  10:09:38 /usr/bin/ash
>  wombat   8024    8096 con  10:11:24 /usr/bin/ps
>
> So only ash is running.  I'm about to reboot to see if that bit of voodoo helps.

Hmm. ps -ef should have shown all active processes (also services), but maybe
there are hidden ones which you could detect with procexp from sysinternals.com
-- 
Reini Urban
http://phpwiki.org/ http://murbreak.at/

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