Dave Korn <dave.korn.cyg...@googlemail.com> writes: > > I said I'd check: there doesn't seem anything wrong with the packaging, > which hasn't changed in a couple of years now; the most likely thing is that > you and Bao experienced some kind of failure during running the postinstall > scripts. Checking the log files /var/log/setup.* might show some indication > of the problem. (But it also might not, error-handling paths are a known > weakness in setup.exe.)
Thanks:-) I can confirm your guess, the following lines are in my /var/log/setup.log: 2009/06/04 18:06:49 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile -c /etc/postinstall/man.sh 2009/06/04 18:06:50 abnormal exit: exit code=127 Here's a complete list of abnormal exits, note that I did 2 install, first time is default, second time is full-install. I used `grep abnormal -B 1 setup.log': 2009/06/04 18:06:44 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile -c /etc/postinstall/000-cygwin-post-install.sh 2009/06/04 18:06:47 abnormal exit: exit code=127 2009/06/04 18:06:47 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile -c /etc/postinstall/passwd-grp.sh 2009/06/04 18:06:47 abnormal exit: exit code=127 2009/06/04 18:06:47 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile -c /etc/postinstall/update-info-dir.sh 2009/06/04 18:06:48 abnormal exit: exit code=127 2009/06/04 18:06:48 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile -c /etc/postinstall/coreutils.sh 2009/06/04 18:06:48 abnormal exit: exit code=127 2009/06/04 18:06:48 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile -c /etc/postinstall/terminfo0.sh 2009/06/04 18:06:48 abnormal exit: exit code=127 2009/06/04 18:06:48 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile -c /etc/postinstall/bash.sh 2009/06/04 18:06:49 abnormal exit: exit code=127 2009/06/04 18:06:49 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile -c /etc/postinstall/base-files-profile.sh 2009/06/04 18:06:49 abnormal exit: exit code=127 2009/06/04 18:06:49 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile -c /etc/postinstall/base-files-mketc.sh 2009/06/04 18:06:49 abnormal exit: exit code=127 2009/06/04 18:06:49 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile -c /etc/postinstall/man.sh 2009/06/04 18:06:50 abnormal exit: exit code=127 2009/06/04 18:06:50 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile -c /etc/postinstall/terminfo.sh 2009/06/04 18:06:50 abnormal exit: exit code=127 -- 2009/06/04 18:59:17 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile -c /etc/postinstall/clamav.sh 2009/06/04 18:59:18 abnormal exit: exit code=1 -- 2009/06/04 18:59:26 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile -c /etc/postinstall/exim.sh 2009/06/04 18:59:26 abnormal exit: exit code=2 -- 2009/06/04 19:57:08 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile -c /etc/postinstall/brltty.sh 2009/06/04 19:57:09 abnormal exit: exit code=1 -- 2009/06/04 19:58:26 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile -c /etc/postinstall/postinstall-ec-fonts-mftraced.sh 2009/06/04 19:58:31 abnormal exit: exit code=1 -- 2009/06/04 20:03:28 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile -c /etc/postinstall/shared-mime-info.sh 2009/06/04 20:03:28 abnormal exit: exit code=127 -- 2009/06/04 20:05:41 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile -c /etc/postinstall/x3270.sh 2009/06/04 20:05:41 abnormal exit: exit code=127 -- 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/