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Re: Installing error: cygwin1.dll not found


On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:

> Kevin Worrell wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I recently installed cygwin on my Windows XP but when I try to run
> > cygwin I get an error saying "This application (bash.exe) has failed
> > to start because cygwin1.dll was not found.  Re-installing the
> > application may fix this problem."
> >
> > I also got a similar message during the initial installation and it
> > keeps coming up on attempted re-installations (when I tried
> > re-installing the default packages).  After checking the FAQs I
> > identified the cygwin1.dll in the cygwin package and have tried to
> > install it specifically on the Select Packages setup page by switching
> > the toggle button from "skip" to "1.5.18-1."  When I click next, the
> > setup detects additional dependent packages that need to be
> > downloaded, but when I continue I get one of the following two errors:
> >
> > "Fatal error: uncaught exception
> > Thread: install
> > Type: St16invalid_argument
> > Message: URL Scheme not registered!"
> >
> > or  "Can't open (null) for reading: no such file"
> >
> > What am I doing wrong?  I also found a similar problem in the mailing
> > list archives, entitled ?Error while installing cygwin? from Abhinav
> > Varshney, dated 11/5/05.  Thanks for any help that you can give.
> >
> > Additional info:
> > setup.exe version 2.510.2.2
> > cygwin dll release version 1.5.18-1
>
> How about cygcheck output as requested by:
>
> > Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
>
> As to the 'setup.exe' problem, was there anything "interesting" that
> showed up in setup.log or setup.log.full?

For the 'setup.exe' problem, nothing interesting will show up in
setup.log* for the OP's version of setup.  Version 2.513-1-alpha[*] added
some interesting debugging info -- this should also show up in the next
setup snapshot, if and when it is built.
	Igor
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