Cygwin won't install on Windows 2008.

2007-08-17 Thread Krzysztof Ostrowski
It deterministically gets stuck while executing (any of the) scripts in the "installation" phase. I haven't found any info on this on Google. It doesn't help to run it in elevated or backward compatibility mode. Krzys -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem rep

Cygwin doesn't install on Windows Server 2008 (x64).

2008-03-13 Thread Krzysztof Ostrowski
Problem: Cygwin won't install (it hangs in the post-install scripts). Symptoms: Deterministically hangs when running the post-install scripts. Running in compatibility mode with Windows Server 2003 no longer helps, as it used to help in the past with the beta and CTP versions of Windows Server 20

RE: Cygwin doesn't install on Windows Server 2008 (x64).

2008-03-13 Thread Krzysztof Ostrowski
Hi, I'm positive about that, I just retried that on a clean machine. I'd be happy to send you logs or other debug info if you just tell me what you would need. I've looked at the log in C:\cygwin\var, but the file size is 0, the setup is probably not flushing the stuff it writes to the file. The

Re: Cygwin doesn't install on Windows Server 2008 (x64).

2008-03-14 Thread Krzysztof Ostrowski
Unfortunately I'm not intimately familiar with Cygwin sources. I was assuming that someone who actually understands what the setup is doing could suggest places to look at, perhaps some log files or error dumps. I couldn't find any useful logs, the only one that I've found wasn't flushed and had si

RE: Cygwin doesn't install on Windows Server 2008 (x64).

2008-03-14 Thread Krzysztof Ostrowski
child processes instead. Does that sound familiar? Is there a way to get at a working bash shell before the post-install scripts complete? Krzys -Original Message- From: Popper, Samuel (US SSA) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 12:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Krz

RE: Cygwin doesn't install on Windows Server 2008 (x64).

2008-03-14 Thread Krzysztof Ostrowski
n everything apparently "fixes it"... Krzys -Original Message- From: Popper, Samuel (US SSA) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 1:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Krzysztof Ostrowski Subject: RE: Cygwin doesn't install on Windows Server 2008 (x64). Your

RE: Cygwin doesn't install on Windows Server 2008 (x64).

2008-03-14 Thread Krzysztof Ostrowski
- From: Krzysztof Ostrowski Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 2:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; 'Popper, Samuel (US SSA)' Subject: RE: Cygwin doesn't install on Windows Server 2008 (x64). Hi, Path wasn't an issue because I did specify full paths, but w