Thanks for your mail! I sometimes run into this problem and usually that leads me sooner or later I to reinstall the complete cygwin. Currently this is my biggest problem with cygwin, so I write to say nothing more than that I really appreciate that you work on this problem.
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Jim Schneider <jim.schnei...@dataflux.com> wrote: > > I apologize if this is a well-known problem. I ran into the "last error = 6" > problem trying to rebase some DLLs installed by perl's CPAN module. The > advice you find if you google that error message (kill all cygwin processes > and services, rebooting if necessary) will _not_ work if the problem is a > file marked as read-only. > > I am working on a patch, which is complicated by the need to avoid having > rebase link against cygwin1.dll, and the way Windows Vista & 7 manage ACLs. > In the meantime, I figured having a mention of another possible cause of this > problem could save someone else from fruitlessly rebooting their system into > safe mode in a vain effort to make CPAN work. > > If you run into "ReBaseImage failed with last error = 6", and you've killed > every cygwin process you find running, before you reboot, check the > permissions on the DLL that's causing the error. "ls -l" will show the > current permissions, and "chmod u+w" will fix `em. > > > -- > 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 > -- 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
