I tried installing cygwin (the current setup.exe from www.cygwin.com) on a freshly installed Windows 2008 server.
The installation started normally, and I didn't see anything strange until I was going to check up on the progress. Then the cygwin setup window was gone. There was no desktop icon, but there was a start menu entry. When I selected the "Cygwin Bash Shell" entry, a command line window flashed up and disappeared. I tried running the install again, using all defaults from the original install. I got no error messages, but again no desktop icon was created. Trying to select the start menu item, gave me the same command line window popping up, and then disappearing. I started cmd.exe and ran bash, and got the following (which looks similar to what's displayed in the window that opens and disappears): C:\Users\myuser>\cygwin\bin\bash 2 [main] bash 3832 _cygtls::handle_exceptions: Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VI OLATION 480 [main] bash 3832 open_stackdumpfile: Dumping stack trace to bash.exe.sta ckdump 408620 [main] bash 3832 _cygtls::handle_exceptions: Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VI OLATION 425466 [main] bash 3832 _cygtls::handle_exceptions: Error while dumping state ( probably corrupted stack) Anyone has any idea what might be wrong here? Thanx! - Steinar -- 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/