Cygwin vs Via C3: nothing happens, no output

[scott <t9zqzy4c at slittle dot com>]

Peoples,

I'm attempting to install on a Via EPIA-5000 (533Mhz C3/Samuel 2)
without success... is this platform not supported?

post-install, no Cygwin commands produce any output (not bad command or
filename, just nothing at all), except cygcheck which will only print
the help, any other option/filename results in nothing on screen and
nothing on disk.

Cygwin is installed with all default options/packages, Windows's DEP
feature is on its lowest setting and the CPU doesn't support it,
everything is done as Admin, there are no BSODs or other troubles with
Windows, there are no messages in the event log, the problem persists
across multiple clean reinstalls of Windows and at multiple patch
levels, I've tried multiple Cygwin repositories, redownloading
setup.exe, using the previous version of the main DLL (as selected from
the installer), and rerunning the post-install scripts by hand had no
effect.

I tried the "rebase" thing (thread:
http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin@cygwin.com/msg103855.html) but that
also has no effect (DLL remains unchanged, nothing printed on screen),
just like all other commands.

Using the same Windows discs/patches, options and Cygwin
setup.exe/repositories on a spare Duron machine works flawlessly.  Linux
had been running on the Via C3 box without problems for many years, so
it doesn't appear to be a hardware fault, though perhaps a C3 is missing
something present in equivalent-class processors?


setup.log from Cygwin v1.7 on W2K3, W2K3 R2, W2K3 R2 SP2, W2K3 R2 SP2 +
all updates:

2010/03/20 11:04:06 Starting cygwin install, version 2.686
2010/03/20 11:04:06 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/setup.rc) failed
2 No such file or directory
2010/03/20 11:04:06 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/last-cache)
failed 2 No such file or directory
2010/03/20 11:04:06 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/last-action)
failed 2 No such file or directory
2010/03/20 11:04:06 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/net-method)
failed 2 No such file or directory
2010/03/20 11:04:06 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/net-proxy-host)
failed 2 No such file or directory
2010/03/20 11:04:06 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/net-proxy-port)
failed 2 No such file or directory
2010/03/20 11:04:06 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/last-mirror)
failed 2 No such file or directory
2010/03/20 11:04:06 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/extrakeys)
failed 2 No such file or directory
2010/03/20 11:04:06 io_stream_cygfile:
fopen(/etc/setup/chooser_window_settings) failed 2 No such file or directory
2010/03/20 11:04:06 Current Directory: E:\install\Cygwin
2010/03/20 11:04:06 User has backup/restore rights
2010/03/20 11:04:06 Changing gid to Administrators
2010/03/20 11:04:06 Could not open service McShield for query, start and
stop. McAfee may not be installed, or we don't have access.
2010/03/20 11:04:12 source: network install
2010/03/20 11:04:13 root: C:\cygwin binary system
2010/03/20 11:04:13 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/installed.db)
failed 2 No such file or directory
2010/03/20 11:04:14 Selected local directory: E:\install\Cygwin
2010/03/20 11:04:25 net: Direct
2010/03/20 11:04:25 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/mirrors-lst)
failed 2 No such file or directory
2010/03/20 11:04:47 site: http://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/
2010/03/20 11:06:50 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/timestamp)
failed 2 No such file or directory
2010/03/20 11:07:56 io_stream_cygfile:
fopen(/etc/setup/new-cygwin-version) failed 2 No such file or directory
[snip "downloaded/extracting" list with no errors]
2010/03/20 11:17:53 Changing gid back to original
2010/03/20 11:17:56 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile
/etc/postinstall/000-cygwin-post-install.sh
2010/03/20 11:17:57 abnormal exit: exit code=128
2010/03/20 11:17:57 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile
/etc/postinstall/passwd-grp.sh
2010/03/20 11:17:57 abnormal exit: exit code=128
2010/03/20 11:17:57 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile
/etc/postinstall/terminfo0.sh
2010/03/20 11:17:57 abnormal exit: exit code=128
2010/03/20 11:17:57 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile
/etc/postinstall/update-info-dir.sh
2010/03/20 11:17:57 abnormal exit: exit code=128
2010/03/20 11:17:57 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile
/etc/postinstall/coreutils.sh
2010/03/20 11:17:57 abnormal exit: exit code=128
2010/03/20 11:17:57 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile
/etc/postinstall/terminfo.sh
2010/03/20 11:17:57 abnormal exit: exit code=128
2010/03/20 11:17:57 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile
/etc/postinstall/bash.sh
2010/03/20 11:17:57 abnormal exit: exit code=128
2010/03/20 11:17:57 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile
/etc/postinstall/base-files-profile.sh
2010/03/20 11:17:57 abnormal exit: exit code=128
2010/03/20 11:17:57 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile
/etc/postinstall/base-files-mketc.sh
2010/03/20 11:17:57 abnormal exit: exit code=128
2010/03/20 11:17:57 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile
/etc/postinstall/man.sh
2010/03/20 11:17:57 abnormal exit: exit code=128
2010/03/20 11:17:57 Changing gid to Administrators
2010/03/20 11:18:06 note: Installation Complete
2010/03/20 11:18:06 Ending cygwin install


setup.log from Cygwin v1.7 on XP SP3:

[snip]
2010/03/20 13:38:22 Changing gid back to original
2010/03/20 13:38:25 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile
/etc/postinstall/000-cygwin-post-install.sh
2010/03/20 13:38:26 abnormal exit: exit code=-1073741795
2010/03/20 13:38:26 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile
/etc/postinstall/passwd-grp.sh
2010/03/20 13:38:26 abnormal exit: exit code=-1073741795
2010/03/20 13:38:26 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile
/etc/postinstall/terminfo0.sh
2010/03/20 13:38:26 abnormal exit: exit code=-1073741795
2010/03/20 13:38:26 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile
/etc/postinstall/update-info-dir.sh
2010/03/20 13:38:26 abnormal exit: exit code=-1073741795
2010/03/20 13:38:26 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile
/etc/postinstall/coreutils.sh
2010/03/20 13:38:26 abnormal exit: exit code=-1073741795
2010/03/20 13:38:26 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile
/etc/postinstall/terminfo.sh
2010/03/20 13:38:26 abnormal exit: exit code=-1073741795
2010/03/20 13:38:26 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile
/etc/postinstall/bash.sh
2010/03/20 13:38:26 abnormal exit: exit code=-1073741795
2010/03/20 13:38:26 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile
/etc/postinstall/base-files-profile.sh
2010/03/20 13:38:26 abnormal exit: exit code=-1073741795
2010/03/20 13:38:26 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile
/etc/postinstall/base-files-mketc.sh
2010/03/20 13:38:26 abnormal exit: exit code=-1073741795
2010/03/20 13:38:26 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile
/etc/postinstall/man.sh
2010/03/20 13:38:27 abnormal exit: exit code=-1073741795
2010/03/20 13:38:27 Changing gid to Administrators
2010/03/20 13:39:08 note: Installation Complete
2010/03/20 13:39:08 Ending cygwin install


setup.log from Cygwin 1.5 (legacy) on XP SP3:

[snip]
2010/03/20 14:14:28 Changing gid back to original
2010/03/20 14:14:30 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile
/etc/postinstall/coreutils.sh
2010/03/20 14:14:30 abnormal exit: exit code=-6
2010/03/20 14:14:30 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile
/etc/postinstall/terminfo.sh
2010/03/20 14:14:30 abnormal exit: exit code=-6
2010/03/20 14:14:30 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile
/etc/postinstall/bash.sh
2010/03/20 14:14:30 abnormal exit: exit code=-6
2010/03/20 14:14:30 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile
/etc/postinstall/base-files-mketc.sh
2010/03/20 14:14:30 abnormal exit: exit code=-6
2010/03/20 14:14:30 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile
/etc/postinstall/base-files-profile.sh
2010/03/20 14:14:30 abnormal exit: exit code=-6
2010/03/20 14:14:30 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile
/etc/postinstall/passwd-grp.sh
2010/03/20 14:14:30 abnormal exit: exit code=-6
2010/03/20 14:14:30 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile
/etc/postinstall/man.sh
2010/03/20 14:14:30 abnormal exit: exit code=-6
2010/03/20 14:14:30 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile
/etc/postinstall/terminfo0.sh
2010/03/20 14:14:30 abnormal exit: exit code=-6
2010/03/20 14:14:30 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile
/etc/postinstall/cygwin-doc.sh
2010/03/20 14:14:30 abnormal exit: exit code=-6
2010/03/20 14:14:30 Changing gid to Administrators
2010/03/20 14:15:26 note: Installation Complete
2010/03/20 14:15:26 Ending cygwin install


WTH?


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