I searched don't hit me! The problem is that the postinstall scripts fail to execute properly and leave me with a non-functional cygwin installation. ie: clicking the cygwin shortcut leads to a "bash-2.05b$" prompt from which no commands work. System is XP SP1. setup.exe is 2.340.2.5.
I located some discussions on the topic but none contained a workable solution. http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-05/msg01331.html -- Deals with download corruption, undownloaded packages and so on. I can verify that my downloads are complete and functional because they work on other (win2k) systems. http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-08/msg01251.html -- This one is similar. It deals with the user's failure to download the fileutils package. http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-04/msg02133.html -- Also a download failure. On my win2k box a full installation and an installation of only the stuff I need works fine. They both work fine in c:\cygwin and in any different directory. ALL these types of installations fail on the XP box. Linked is a 97.9KB rar archive containing setup.log, setup.log.full, cygcheck -svr and env. http://members.rogers.com/nbozovic1/diag.rar Here's some more information: bash-2.05b$ /bin/ls -ld /bin d--------- 3 Nebob ???????? 0 Aug 27 15:14 /bin bash-2.05b$ /bin/mount C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (textmode) C:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (textmode) C:\cygwin on / type system (textmode) c: on /cygdrive/c type user (textmode,noumount) d: on /cygdrive/d type user (textmode,noumount) bash-2.05b$ type -a /bin/id /bin/id is /bin/id bash-2.05b$ /bin/ls -l /bin/id ---------- 1 Nebob ???????? 26112 Jan 7 2003 /bin/id Everything in /etc/postinstall has a .done extension. /home, /etc/passwd and /etc/group were not generated. I'd appreciate any and all assistance. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
