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