On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 07:15:57PM +0100, Bernd Bartmann wrote: >Hi, > >I just updated my old cygwin installation to the new version 1.7.1. >I'm running it on a German WinXP SP3. The installation process went >without any problem or error message, but now if I try to start cygwin >using the desktop icon a command window appears for a short time and >then goes away again. Even if I try to start the cygwin.bat from a cmd >window I just end up in C:\cygwin\bin, but no bash is started at all. > >Then I followed the instructions from >http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all to >uninstall cygwin, rebooted and installed 1.7.1 again. But again, >cygwin does not work. > >Any ideas?
That may be the symptom of two different versions of the DLL existing on your system. See: http://cygwin.com/problems.html for more information on how to track down Cygwin problems. cgf -- 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
