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Re: Fresh install of Cygwin, not working


Oliver Jones wrote:
Can anyone tell me why the latest version of Cygwin will not work?

I have downloaded the complete version from my local mirror, which is on the
mirrors list. When I install, I do not get the X Server icon, or any of the
X applications that normally appear, on my desktop (fresh Windows XP
install).

Nor does the Cygwin.bat shortcut, placed on my desktop after the install,
work. When running from the Windows cmd shell, it reports "Bad command -
bash".

I've tried to download from other mirrors, often with the same result. It
seems that if I want to actually *use* Cygwin, I'll have to see if I can dig
up a version I saved on CD-ROM, because none of the mirrors work anymore.

Anyone else experiencing this issue?

Clearly, this is not a wide-spread issue, otherwise you'd see the list swamped by complaints like this.

My suggestion is to read and follow the problem reporting guidelines found
here - <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>.  This will give folks on this list
that wish to help some basic information on which to start a meaningful
dialog.  Absent that, my WAG is that your postinstall scripts didn't run
for some reason.  Check '/etc/postinstall' to see if there are any scripts
that don't have a ".done" suffix.  If there are, you can try rerunning
'setup.exe' again.  It should run the remaining postinstall scripts.  If
that doesn't help or isn't the obvious issue, a look at /var/log/setup.log*
may provide some insight (if the postinstall scripts failed), assuming you
haven't rerun 'setup.exe' again since the initial install failure.

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