On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 00:43, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 4/20/2010 9:38 AM, Yuval Emek wrote: >> >> When invoking a cygwin bash shell window, I'm getting the following >> message: >> ***message begins*** >> Your group is currently "mkgroup". This indicates that neither >> your gid nor your pgsid (primary group associated with your SID) >> is in /etc/group. >> >> The /etc/group (and possibly /etc/passwd) files should be rebuilt. >> See the man pages for mkpasswd and mkgroup then, for example, run >> >> mkpasswd -l [-d]> /etc/passwd >> mkgroup -l [-d]> /etc/group >> >> Note that the -d switch is necessary for domain users. >> ***message ends*** >> >> An attempt to run mkgroup ends in: >> $ mkgroup >> SYSTEM:S-1-5-18:18: >> mkgroup (101): [1355] The specified domain either does not exist or could >> not be contacted. > > According to your cygcheck output says you have an old installation in > 'd:\cygwin-old'. If true, please remove this and then run: > > cygcheck --delete-orphaned-installation-keys
This is very strange mainly because I don't have (and I never had) a D:\ partition on my laptop. (How did you extract this info from my cygcheck output btw?) Running cygcheck --delete-orphaned-nstallation-keys and then reinstalling everything (with setup.exe) didn't work. However, running cygcheck --delete-orphaned-nstallation-keys, uninstalling cygwin entirely (by following the instructions in http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all), and then installing it from scratch did work (hooray)! So, this problem is solved (thanks), but the problem I reported in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-04/msg00740.html remains (back to that thread). Yuval > > Then reinstall Cygwin in it's current location (just re-run "setup.exe" > and specify "Reinstall" for "All". Your current installation is > incomplete, presumably because of some conflict with your "old" > installation. > > -- > Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com > RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office > 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX > Holliston, MA 01746 > > _____________________________________________________________________ > > A: Yes. >> >> Q: Are you sure? >>> >>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>>> >>>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? > > -- > 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 > > -- 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
