Cygwin on Windows 7 died waiting for DLL to load

Question

I get the infamous "dead pending DLL download, no child process errors" in my Cygwin installation (64-bit) on Windows 7. It all started when I tried to install the update for Cygwin. I did not install any other software on the Windows 7 machine, so I do not think there is a conflict.

I read various startup entries rebaseallthat I performed, and that didn't help. I saw one message where someone said that they figured out what to do if it rebasealldoesn't work. But the link in their message, which indicated a hint of a solution, was dead.

I tried to delete the file /etc/rebase.db.x86_64and run it again rebaseall.

I tried to remove mine C:\cygwin64 directory and C:\cygwinInstall(where I downloaded the downloaded files) and completely reinstall it, but that didn't work either.

I also tried downloading the 32-bit version of Cygwin. This installation cannot even run the command rebaseall(it receives a fork error).

I hope someone can provide me another option.

Answer 1

I, too, ran into the same issue on Windows 7 Enterprise (SP1), with a 32-bit installation of Cygwin. After switching to 64-bit cygwin, as suggested by @ https://www.cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.using.fixing-fork-failures , Now I could use cygwin.