Re: ash start-up issue

[Steven Collins <spc dot for dot nbc at gmail dot com>]

Is anyone aware of a solution for this issue short of a complete
reinstall of cygwin? I really need an answer for this.

Thanks,
Steven

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 14:37, Steven Collins <spc.for.nbc@gmail.com> wrote:
> I downloaded and extracted the *nix version of tkdiff under my Cygwin
> home directory. When I attempt to run it I get an error dialog
> reading:
>
> +----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
> | TkDiff: Error
>
> ? ? |
> +----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
> | ? ?diff failed:
>
> ? ? ? |
> | ? ? ? 1[main] diff 136 C:\cygwin\bin\diff.exe: *** fatal error -
> could not load user32, Win32 error 487 ? ? ? ? ?|
> +----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
>
> Googling for this error indicated that I needed to run rebaseall. As I
> understand it rebaseall needs to be run from an ash shell started from
> Windows with all Cygwin processes terminated so that the DLL is not in
> use. I rebooted and attempted to start ash from a cmd terminal window.
> Unfortunately ash is generating the same error as diff did when run
> from tkdiff. Help?
>
> C:\cygwin\bin>.\ash.exe
> ?? ? ?1 [main] ash 4500 C:\cygwin\bin\ash.exe: *** fatal error - could
> not load?user32, Win32 error 487
>

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