Hello JJ, I recently had the same issue. I am building a repository on an intranet server from which all employees will install Cygwin. A few days ago, I downloaded an older version of a package that I already had installed, then poked around in setup.ini to see how Cygwin managed which packages were current or previous, etcetera. Shortly thereafter, a new installation of Cygwin failed in exactly the manner you describe. (If you echo $PATH, you will see that the Cygwin paths normally prepended to the Windows path are absent.)
I can't tell you exactly what caused the problem (although setup.ini munging seems likely), but after I blew away my repository and repopulated it, Cygwin installs worked properly again. Adam -- 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/
