Re: Problem while installing Cygwin

[Eric Blake <ebb9 at byu dot net>]

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According to Srinivasan Rajesh on 4/13/2006 2:19 AM:
> I have a serious problem on installing Cygwin.
> The installation in the root folder "C:/cygwin/", results in no "/home"
> directory.

/home is created on the first successful login.  So now we need to figure
out why your login was not successful.

> And when I try to click "Cygwin Bash Shell" from start menu, no action
> is happening.

When this happens, something to try is open a cmd.com window, change
directories to where the binaries were installed (in your case,
c:\cygwin\bin), then run '.\bash --login -i' and see if any error messages
appear.  You can also run '.\bash -livx' for a verbose login, to see
which, if any, command being run during the login process is a culprit.

> I tried to install many times but nothing helps me. What could be the
> problem.
> Earlier when I tried to open cygwin, it opens an editor "PHPEdit" with
> the following content.

Correct, that is the default .bat file installed by setup.exe.

Something else you should do is look at these directions:
> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html

In particular, the part about including the output of 'cygcheck -svr' as a
text attachment will help us learn more about your setup, and perhaps make
it easier to diagnose the problem.

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Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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