> Probably, for some weird reason, the 000-post-install was not run > before other scripts.
Indeed, it wasn't. Here's the sequence of postinstall steps as logged, and it is far off from being alphabetical (if that's to ensure the order of things): 2013/04/22 22:45:21 Changing gid back to original 2013/04/22 22:45:21 running: D:\Cygwin64\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/coreutils.sh" 2013/04/22 22:45:21 running: D:\Cygwin64\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/bash.sh" 2013/04/22 22:45:22 abnormal exit: exit code=1 2013/04/22 22:45:22 running: D:\Cygwin64\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/000-cygwin-post-install.sh" 2013/04/22 22:45:22 running: D:\Cygwin64\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/base-files-profile.sh" 2013/04/22 22:45:23 running: D:\Cygwin64\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/base-files-mketc.sh" 2013/04/22 22:45:24 running: D:\Cygwin64\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/libxml2.sh" 2013/04/22 22:45:24 running: D:\Cygwin64\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/dbus.sh" 2013/04/22 22:45:24 running: D:\Cygwin64\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/gsettings-desktop-schemas.sh" 2013/04/22 22:45:24 running: D:\Cygwin64\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/glib2.0.sh" 2013/04/22 22:45:24 running: D:\Cygwin64\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/shared-mime-info.sh" 2013/04/22 22:45:26 running: D:\Cygwin64\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/cygutils.sh" 2013/04/22 22:45:28 running: D:\Cygwin64\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/emacs.sh" 2013/04/22 22:45:31 running: D:\Cygwin64\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/emacs-w32.sh" 2013/04/22 22:45:32 running: D:\Cygwin64\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/man.sh" 2013/04/22 22:45:32 running: D:\Cygwin64\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/smartmontools.sh" 2013/04/22 22:45:32 running: D:\Cygwin64\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/tcsh.sh" 2013/04/22 22:45:32 running: D:\Cygwin64\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/wget.sh" 2013/04/22 22:45:32 Changing gid to Administrators 2013/04/22 22:45:43 note: Installation Complete Anton Lavrentiev Contractor NIH/NLM/NCBI -- 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