On Jan 15 11:03, Frank Fesevur wrote: > 2010/1/14 David Sherrets: > > I too experienced the same problem. > > The fix for me was this... > > > > I have a newer Dell machine. The hardware encryption API DLL > > (wxvault.dll) interferes with many Cygwin packages. > > This can be fixed stopping this DLL from loading at startup. > > (use Autoruns from Microsoft Sysinternals at > > http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals) > > > > I can't take credit for this, as it was my co-workers in Sweden who > > found the fix, but I though there are many here who might benefit! > > YES!!!!!!! A *BIG* thank you to your Swedish co-worker, and to you for > telling here! > > This solved the problem for me as well. > > I have a Dell as well, my is almost three years old. That dll was on > the AppInit tab and it was used by docmgr.exe that can be found as > "Document Manager" on the Logon tab. I disabled them both and made a > backup of my cygwin15 installation (including the mount keys in the > registry). > > After all of this I restarted my Windows, run the setup and upgraded > to 1.7 without any problem. > > Once again a big thank you! > > Maybe it is an idea to put this on the BLODA list?
It's already in the list: http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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