On 13/01/2025 17:42, Andrea Venturoli via Cygwin wrote:
Hello.
Today I run setup to upgrade all packages: an error popped up saying
xinit post-install script was not able to complete.
I'm in fact missing Cygwin-X entries in start menu.
I tried running it again, but I always get the same error.
Extract from setup.log.full:
[...]
2025/01/13 18:30:58 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile
"/etc/postinstall/xinit.sh"
mkshortcut: Saving "/cygdrive/c/ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows/Start
Menu/Programs/Cygwin-X/XWin Server.lnk" failed; does the target
directory exist?
mkshortcut: Saving "/cygdrive/c/ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows/Start
Menu/Programs/Cygwin-X/User .xsession script.lnk" failed; does the
target directory exist?
2025/01/13 18:30:59 abnormal exit: exit code=3
[...]
Any idea on how to fix this?
Thanks for reporting this.
This seems to be something that's changed in Windows 11(?) that prevents
mkshortcut from working to create these start menu shortcuts.
We've never really got to the bottom of what causes that, why it only
effects some people and what we need to do to fix it. (See the
discussion around [1]).
As a workaround you might see if the script can be run in an elevated
shell (right-click on the "Cygwin64 Terminal" icon, choose "Run As
Administrator", run the /etc/postinstall/xinit.sh script)
[1] https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2024-November/256775.html
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