I believe I found the cause of the problem. When running cygcheck on /usr/lib/libusb/libusb0.sys I get this:
$ cygcheck /usr/lib/libusb/libusb0.sys c:/Cygwin/lib/libusb/libusb0.sys Error: could not find usbd.sys <---- !!!! C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntoskrnl.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\BOOTVID.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\HAL.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\KDCOM.dll Copying usbd.sys from c:\windows\system32\drivers to /usr/lib/libusb makes the problem disappear. After a reboot everything works. Somehow the Cygwin libusb0.sys must link to usbd.sys with the full path i.e. c:\windows\system32\drivers\usbd.sys instead of assuming that usbd.sys is located in the same directory as libusb0.sys. HTH Ton van Overbeek -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/