Re: No go after update to 1.7.1

2010-01-23 Thread Stephen Grant Brown
in install --- - Original Message - From: "Christopher Faylor" To: Sent: Monday, December 28, 2009 2:19 AM Subject: Re: No go after update to 1.7.1 On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 11:23:16AM +0100,

Re: Fwd: No go after update to 1.7.1

2009-12-29 Thread Bernd Bartmann
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Dave Korn wrote: >  Take a look in /etc/postinstall.  If you see lots of files named "*.sh", > then you can simply re-run setup.exe and click right through it without > changing any of the settings from last time and it will finish off running any > scripts that it

Re: Fwd: No go after update to 1.7.1

2009-12-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 06:08:50PM +, Dave Korn wrote: >Of course, this means that it's all someone else's fault and Cygwin is >perfect :-) and I'm not saying that under any kind of duress or >gravitationally-inspired threat from any kind of even-toed aquatic >ungulant whatsoever ... Gentlemen

Re: Fwd: No go after update to 1.7.1

2009-12-29 Thread Dave Korn
Bernd Bartmann wrote: > Now how to go on to get the cygwin installation fixed? As Larry > pointed out - because bash could not be run during the setup process > the postinstall scripts couldn't be run. > Shall I just reinstall all packages but the core cygwin package? Take a look in /etc/postin

Re: Fwd: No go after update to 1.7.1

2009-12-29 Thread Bernd Bartmann
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Dave Korn wrote: >  We have a suspect: > >> "11:09:08,3362588","bash.exe","3396","CreateFileMapping","C:\Programme\BitDefender\BitDefender >> 2010\Active Virus Control\midas32-v2_58\PLUGIN_NT.M32","SUCCESS","SyncType: >> SyncTypeOther" > >  That's listed on BLODA.

Re: No go after update to 1.7.1

2009-12-29 Thread Claude Sylvain
Bernd Bartmann wrote: > > procmon to monitor what bash is actually doing. As it seems it stops > because it can't find /etc/passwd and /etc/fstab which indeed are > missing. Shouldn't they have been created during the setup process? > Also, /etc does not contain any files just some sub-directorie

Re: Fwd: No go after update to 1.7.1

2009-12-29 Thread Dave Korn
[ Cc'ing the list back in now, FTR. ] Bernd Bartmann wrote: >> Looks like your post didn't make it through to the list; there's nothing in >> the archive for your message with ID >> <6c18a4f0912280230k601eca9me32c056e09117...@mail.gmail.com>. Probably >> something somewhere down the line though

Re: No go after update to 1.7.1

2009-12-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 12/29/2009 10:57 AM, Bernd Bartmann wrote: Obviously my last post didn't make it through the mailing list probably because of a .csv attachment. So, here's the original text again: Setting the PATH to C:\cygwin\bin only doesn't help either. So I tried procmon to monitor what bash is actually

Re: No go after update to 1.7.1

2009-12-29 Thread Bernd Bartmann
Obviously my last post didn't make it through the mailing list probably because of a .csv attachment. So, here's the original text again: Setting the PATH to C:\cygwin\bin only doesn't help either. So I tried procmon to monitor what bash is actually doing. As it seems it stops because it can't fin

Re: No go after update to 1.7.1

2009-12-29 Thread Bernd Bartmann
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Bernd Bartmann wrote: > On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 12:31 AM, Christopher Faylor > wrote: >> I'd suggest at this point that you run sysinternals procmon to see if >> you can figure out why bash isn't starting.  You might also try running >> with a trimmed down PATH. >

Re: No go after update to 1.7.1

2009-12-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 05:58:20PM -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >On 12/27/2009 01:00 PM, Bernd Bartmann wrote: >> On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: >>> Except for cygwin1.dll of course. Try reinstalling the cygwin package >>> itself as well. >> >> Reinstalling cygwin-1.7.1-1

Re: No go after update to 1.7.1

2009-12-27 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 12/27/2009 01:00 PM, Bernd Bartmann wrote: On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: Except for cygwin1.dll of course. Try reinstalling the cygwin package itself as well. Reinstalling cygwin-1.7.1-1 doesn't help either. I'd recommend getting the output of 'cygcheck -s -r -v' and

Re: No go after update to 1.7.1

2009-12-27 Thread Bernd Bartmann
On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: > Except for cygwin1.dll of course. Try reinstalling the cygwin package > itself as well. Reinstalling cygwin-1.7.1-1 doesn't help either. Best regards, Bernd. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: htt

Re: No go after update to 1.7.1

2009-12-27 Thread Andy Koppe
2009/12/27 Bernd Bartmann: >> What does: >> >> c:\cygwin\bin\cygcheck c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe >> >> show?  It will probably show that you're missing some basic dlls >> which, for some reason, will need to be (re)installed. >> >> You can find the packages which hold the missing dlls by going to >> ht

Re: No go after update to 1.7.1

2009-12-27 Thread Bernd Bartmann
On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > What does: > > c:\cygwin\bin\cygcheck c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe > > show?  It will probably show that you're missing some basic dlls > which, for some reason, will need to be (re)installed. > > You can find the packages which hold the missi

Re: No go after update to 1.7.1

2009-12-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 11:23:16AM +0100, Bernd Bartmann wrote: >On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 12:35 AM, Christopher Faylor > wrote: ^^^ Please don't quote email addresses in the body of your message. >> What happens if you just >> >> cd c:\cygwin\bin >> .\bash >

Re: No go after update to 1.7.1

2009-12-27 Thread Bernd Bartmann
On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 12:35 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > What happens if you just > > cd c:\cygwin\bin > .\bash > > In a command shell? After starting a cmd window I get: C:\> cd cygwin\bin C:\cygwin\bin> .\bash C:\cygwin\bin> So after trying to start bash I just get back to the cmd comman

Re: No go after update to 1.7.1

2009-12-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 02:44:40PM +0100, Bernd Bartmann wrote: >> That may be the symptom of two different versions of the DLL existing on >> your system. >> >> See: http://cygwin.com/problems.html for more information on how to track >> down Cygwin problems. > >Ok, one step closer but still no go

Re: No go after update to 1.7.1

2009-12-26 Thread Bernd Bartmann
> That may be the symptom of two different versions of the DLL existing on > your system. > > See: http://cygwin.com/problems.html for more information on how to track > down Cygwin problems. Ok, one step closer but still no go. There was indeed a second version of the cygwin dll in the default se

Re: No go after update to 1.7.1

2009-12-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 07:15:57PM +0100, Bernd Bartmann wrote: >Hi, > >I just updated my old cygwin installation to the new version 1.7.1. >I'm running it on a German WinXP SP3. The installation process went >without any problem or error message, but now if I try to start cygwin >using the desktop

No go after update to 1.7.1

2009-12-25 Thread Bernd Bartmann
Hi, I just updated my old cygwin installation to the new version 1.7.1. I'm running it on a German WinXP SP3. The installation process went without any problem or error message, but now if I try to start cygwin using the desktop icon a command window appears for a short time and then goes away aga