Re: rebaseall ate my homework (Windows 10 install, that is)?

[ht at inf dot ed dot ac dot uk (Henry S. Thompson)]

Warren Young writes:

> On Jun 28, 2016, at 3:48 PM, Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>> 
>> I'm now pretty sure (it's happened 3 times since Thursday) that some
>> aspect of postinstall (2.5.1 or 2.5.2) has broken my Windows 10 64bit
>> installation.
>
> Quoting from your setup.log.full:
>
>> The following DLLs couldn't be rebased because they were in use:
>>   /c/WINDOWS/system32/imgutil.dll
>>   /c/WINDOWS/system32/msshooks.dll
>>   /c/WINDOWS/system32/mssph.dll
>
> âetc.  I may well be misunderstanding something, but I donât believe rebase has any call to touch such things.  It should only be looking at files under Cygwinâs own /usr, as far as Iâm aware.
>
> Do you have paths such as these in /var/cache/rebase/rebase_lst ?

No, I just checked.
>
>> Anyone else had a bad experience lately?
>
> My Windows 10 test VM here was updated to 2.5.2 not long after Cygwin
> 2.5.2 was first released.  Nothing seemed to be damaged afterward.

> ...

Thanks for the additional info.

ht
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