> On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 08:52:50PM -0500, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > >Just installed it (WinXP), getting this: > > > >c:\WINDOWS>uname > >c:\unix\bin\uname.exe: *** shared version mismatch detected - 0xBC3E/0x3E. > >You have multiple copies of cygwin1.dll on your system. > >Search for cygwin1.dll using the Windows Start->Find/Search facility > >and delete all but the most recent version. The most recent version *should* > >reside in x:\cygwin\bin, where 'x' is the drive on which you have > >installed the cygwin distribution. > > > >No multiple copies of cygwin1.dll on my system. > > But there is a cygwin process running somewhere. Otherwise you wouldn't be > getting this error. This indicates that cygwin's shared memory is > already initialized, which wouldn't be the case if you run 'uname' from > the command prompt as the only cygwin process on the system. > > The last resort is rebooting if nothing else works.
Ok, that was weird. No visible Cygwin processes according to "Task Manager", but sure enough, a reboot freed that shared memory. And Perl is now working as well. It's like Christmas in October! -- Gary R. Van Sickle Brewer. Patriot. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
