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Re: problems installing cygwin on vista


Ruprecht Machleidt wrote:

In the past, I have installed cygwin on several Windows XP systems with no problems.

However, I am encountering severe problems installing
cygwin on vista.
The installation process stalls quietly during the postinstall
phase at
/etc/postinstall/gnuplot.sh

The only way to end the process is to 'cancel'.
No home diretory is created, no icons.

In principal, the
/var/log/setup.log.full
file should reveal what's going wrong.
Towards the end, this file contains repeatedly
statements of the following nature:

2007/10/25 09:38:53 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c /etc/postinstall/email.sh
/usr/bin/bash: /cygdrive/c/Users/francesca/.bashrc: Bad address
sed: can't read /etc/passwd: No such file or directory
2007/10/25 09:38:56 abnormal exit: exit code=2
2007/10/25 09:38:56 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c /etc/postinstall/enscript.sh
/usr/bin/bash: /cygdrive/c/Users/francesca/.bashrc: Bad address
2007/10/25 09:38:56 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c /etc/postinstall/exim.sh
/usr/bin/bash: /cygdrive/c/Users/francesca/.bashrc: Bad address
sed: can't read /etc/passwd: No such file or directory
2007/10/25 09:38:57 abnormal exit: exit code=2


To a knowledgeable person this may provide an indication
of what's wrong.

I greatly appreciate any advice.

Thank you,

Rup

Posting the same thing repeatedly does not get it answered any quicker and
can annoy people that may have the solution to your problem...

As people read your post, if they have input they will provide it..

In the mean time, why don't you read the following on what to include
in a problem report..

*http://cygwin.com/problems.html

* especially the part about.*

Run cygcheck -s -v -r > cygcheck.out and include that file as /an attachment/ in your report. Please do /not/ compress or otherwise encode the output. Just attach it as a straight text file so that it can be easily viewed.*


Respectfully,



Stephen Barclay






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