On Nov 12 11:53, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Hi Georg, > > On Nov 12 02:27, Georg Rehfeld wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > since yesterday I had a working Cygwin 32 running (since years) on my > > XP 64 prof box. When I tried to update tonight I got errors in post > > install (see below) and afterwards I could not start any cygwin > > program, not even bash or grep (tried from a cmd prompt), without any > > error message. After trying to reinstall from different mirrors, > > rebooting several times I finally uninstalled cygwin completely as of > > the FAQ (except for my cygwin/home/*) and installed a fresh base. > > Without success. > > > > *** 32bit, Setup version 2.873: > > > > Postinstall script errors (same as with my previous update attempt: > > ----- > > Package: 0/Perpetual > > 0p_000_autorebase.dash exit code -1073741819 > > Package: _/base-cygwin > > Thanks for the report. I could reproduce the problem on 64 bit XP and > 64 bit Server 2003 and applied a patch. I will upload a fixed 2.3.1 > probably this weekend.
I just uploaded a developer snapshot to https://cygwin.com/snapshots/ Maybe you'd like to give it a try. Installing only the cygwin1.dll from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/x86/cygwin1-20151112.dll.xz is sufficent (but keep a backup of your current cygwin1.dll, just in case). Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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