This is the full log C:\Users\user\Downloads>C:\Users\user\Downloads\setup-x86.exe -q -R C:\cygwin -s http://cygwin.mirror.constant.com -P "wget,screen,cat" -a x86 -v
C:\Users\user\Downloads>note: Hand installation over to elevated child process. Starting cygwin install, version 2.883 User has backup/restore rights Current Directory: C:\Users\user\Downloads Could not open service McShield for query, start and stop. McAfee may not be installed, or we don't have access. root: C:\cygwin system Selected local directory: C:\Users\user\Downloads net: IE5 Loaded cached mirror list Request for URL http://cygwin.com/mirrors.lst satisfied from cache Fetched URL: http://cygwin.com/mirrors.lst site: http://cygwin.mirror.constant.com/ Request for URL http://cygwin.mirror.constant.com/x86/setup.xz.sig satisfied from cache Fetched URL: http://cygwin.mirror.constant.com/x86/setup.xz.sig Request for URL http://cygwin.mirror.constant.com/x86/setup.xz satisfied from cache Fetched URL: http://cygwin.mirror.constant.com/x86/setup.xz compress_xz::bid_xz: success: 48 compress_xz::bid_xz: success: 48 INSTALLED.DB version 3 package gdb comparing versions 7.11.1-2 and 7.12.1-1, result was -1 package gdb comparing versions 7.12.1-2 and 7.12.1-1, result was 1 package gdb-debuginfo comparing versions 7.11.1-2 and 7.12.1-1, result was -1 package gdb-debuginfo comparing versions 7.12.1-2 and 7.12.1-1, result was 1 package xorg-server comparing versions 1.19.3-2 and 1.19.3-1, result was 1 package xorg-server-common comparing versions 1.19.3-2 and 1.19.3-1, result was 1 package xorg-server-debuginfo comparing versions 1.19.3-2 and 1.19.3-1, result was 1 package xorg-server-devel comparing versions 1.19.3-2 and 1.19.3-1, result was 1 package xorg-server-dmx comparing versions 1.19.3-2 and 1.19.3-1, result was 1 package xorg-server-extra comparing versions 1.19.3-2 and 1.19.3-1, result was 1 package xwinclip comparing versions 1.19.3-2 and 1.19.3-1, result was 1 .ini setup_version is 2.883, our setup_version is 2.883 Added manual package screen Added manual package wget Changing gid back to original Visited: 87 nodes out of 10233 while creating dependency order. Dependency order of packages: base-cygwin cygwin dash _autorebase libiconv2 libintl8 alternatives libattr1 libgcc1 libgmp10 tzdata libstdc++6 terminfo libncursesw10 libreadline7 tzcode coreutils bash findutils sed base-files libbz2_1 bzip2 libffi6 libp11-kit0 libtasn1_6 p11-kit p11-kit-trust ca-certificates libpopt-common libpopt0 cygutils libsigsegv2 diffutils editrights zlib0 file libmpfr4 gawk libargp getent libpcre1 grep groff gzip hostname info ipc-utils less libuuid1 libblkid1 libcrypt0 libdb5.3 libgdbm4 libnettle4 libhogweed2 libgnutls28 libnettle6 libhogweed4 libunistring2 libidn2_0 libgnutls30 libiconv liblzma5 libopenssl100 libpipeline1 publicsuffix-list-dafsa libpsl5 libsmartcols1 libssp0 login util-linux man-db mintty ncurses openssl perl_autorebase perl_base perl rebase run screen xz tar vim-minimal wget which running: C:\cygwin\bin\dash.exe "/etc/postinstall/0p_000_autorebase.dash" Updating package information in /var/cache/rebase/rebase_pkg. Updating rebase information for installed dynamic objects in /var/cache/rebase/rebase_lst. Updating rebase information for installed executables in /var/cache/rebase/rebase_exe. removing /var/cache/rebase/rebase_dyn creating empty /var/cache/rebase/rebase_dyn Updating rebase information for user-defined dynamic objects /var/cache/rebase/rebase_user. Updating rebase information for user-defined executables /var/cache/rebase/rebase_user_exe. Rebasing with list /var/cache/rebase/rebase_all, built from /var/cache/rebase/rebase_lst /var/cache/rebase/rebase_dyn /var/cache/rebase/rebase_user. running: C:\cygwin\bin\dash.exe "/etc/postinstall/0p_update-info-dir.dash" running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/zp_man-db.sh" Changing gid to Administrators On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 10:37 AM, Arkady <lary...@gmail.com> wrote: > Another update: the quite mode sometimes succeeds. I estimate that the > success rate is 30%. It rarely succeeds very first time. > > The problem is definitely not new. See, for example, > https://github.com/boxcutter/windows/blob/master/floppy/cygwin.bat#L50 > The batch start with rather encouraging "Force CYGWIN_ARCH to 32-bit - > 64-bit seems to crash a lot" > Indeed 32 bits installer sometimes works. > > On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 8:50 PM, Arkady <lary...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Reproduced again with Autounattend.xml >> My goal is to prepare a Windows machine with Cygwin installed. I am >> trying to script the process. >> >> I have the following section the Autounattend.xml file >> >> <SynchronousCommand wcm:action="add"> >> <CommandLine>cmd.exe /c >> C:\Windows\Temp\setup-x86.exe -q -R C:\cygwin -l C:\Windows\Temp >> --packages "wget,zip,screen" -s >> http://cygwin.mirror.constant.com</CommandLine> >> <Description>Install Cygwin</Description> >> <Order>99</Order> >> <RequiresUserInput>true</RequiresUserInput> >> </SynchronousCommand> >> >> >> The whole file is >> https://github.com/larytet/auto-win/blob/master/autounattend/packer-floppy-win10/Autounattend.xml >> >> The installation fails with the same "setu-x86.exe has stopped >> working". I do not see output, but I bet that this is the same >> "Changing gid to >> Administrators" problem. >> I suspect that this is something related to running as an >> Administrator or System. >> >> I will greatly appreciate any tip. >> >> >> On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 7:41 PM, Arkady <lary...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I tried again on the clean Windows VM >>> >>> setup-x86_64.exe -q -B -R C:\Users\user\Downloads -s >>> http://cygwin/mirror/constant.com >>> >>> After that I tried >>> >>> >>> setup-x86_64.exe -q -B -R C:\Users\user\Downloads -s >>> http://cygwin/mirror/constant.com -p wget,screen >>> >>> Both worked. Looks like my bad >>> >>> On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 7:27 PM, Arkady <lary...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I am trying to do: >>>> >>>> setup-x86_64.exe -q -p wget -v >>>> >>>> The installation fails with the last line "Changing gid to >>>> Administrators" and a small dialog box "setup-x86_64.exe" has stopped >>>> working A problem caused the program to stop working correctly..." >>>> >>>> I tried >>>> setup-x86_64.exe -q -p wget -v -B >>>> and >>>> setup-x86_64.exe -q -p wget -v -B -R C:\Windows\Temp >>>> >>>> The same result - the setup fails >>>> The interactive GUI installation works fine. >>>> The quite mode fails to install/update Cygwin on the machin where it >>>> is already installed. >>>> >>>> >>>> What am I missing? >>>> >>>> Thanks. -- 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
