The problem is related to Vista security: by default, cygwin tries to put the home directory in c:/Users/<username>, but this is a protected directory (analogous to the old "Documents and Settings" directory in XP). Even as that user, you can't get to much of that data!
To get around this problem, simply define the HOME variable BEFORE you attempt to setup cygwin, pointing it to something less restricted (such as c:/home/<username>) and everything works just fine. HTH...jon -- -----Original Message----- From: Jon Seidel CMC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2007 9:12 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Installation corrupt... I just downloaded/installed the latest cygwin (1.5.24-2) using cygwin.elite-systems.org, into a Vista Home Premium system (I know - ugh!) I added a few packages to the default (such as vim, ImageMagick), but didn't think it was much; I removed ash..? Anyway, the installed completed without complaints in a reasonable amount of time (none of the delay/hang problems reported on the list). Almost nothing works when I start the Cygwin bash shell -- help, cd, pwd for example work, but not much else: bash-3.2$ ls * bash: ls: command not found >>>??? [EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc]$man -k ls bash: man: command not found >>>??? [EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc]$cygcheck -s -v -r > cygcheck.out bash: cygcheck: command not found >>> So I was unable to get the cygcheck output that is requested for this >>> list [EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc]$echo $PATH /cygdrive/c/usr/bin:/cygdrive/c/Windows/system32:/cygdrive/c/Windows:/cygdri ve/c/Windows/System32/Wbem:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Common Files/Roxio Shared/DLLShared/:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Common Files/Roxio Shared/DLLShared/:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Common Files/Roxio Shared/9.0/DLLShared/:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/QuickTime/QTSystem/ >>>The PATH option looks very strange... no /usr entries... Viewing the setup log shows that all the post-install tasks ended with an abnormal exit code: exit code=126 or exit code=127 My login user is an Administrator /Users/carol isn't visible in bash, but it's there when I use cmd.exe from DOS. I tried running setup again, but this made no changes.... also re-ran it from the local directory (as suggested in one of the posts) and no change... Any pointers? I've got cygwin up and running on two WinXP machines and it works just great! Thanks...jon -- 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/
