Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/11/29/12:02:07
At 02:14 AM 11/29/2004, you wrote:
>A couple days ago, I tried to update a quite old cygwin installation
>on a Windows XP SP2 box to the latest (1.5.12-1). After the update,
>all Cygwin programs exit immediately and silently. I've tried
>scrubbing the Windows registry of anything with a "Cyg" in it,
>deleting the Cygwin tree, and reinstalling from scratch, with the same
>result. Running "strace" on any Cygwin program shows apparently
>normal output (as far as I can tell) up to a point; and then zippo.
>
>For example, here's the end of 'strace ls':
>
> 149 42033 [main] ls 4072 pwdgrp::load: /etc/group
> 140 42173 [main] ls 4072 pwdgrp::load: strange path_conv problem
> 140 42313 [main] ls 4072 pwdgrp::load: /etc/group load failed
> 152 42465 [main] ls 4072 __cygwin_lock_lock: threadcount 1. not locking
> 151 42616 [main] ls 4072 __cygwin_lock_unlock: threadcount 1. not unlocking
> 148 42764 [main] ls 4072 pwdgrp::read_group: Completing /etc/group: mkpasswd:S-1-5-21-1844237615-725345543-682003330-513:401:dhinds
> 442 43206 [main] ls 4072 cygheap_user::ontherange: what 2, pw 0x10011018
> 147 43353 [main] ls 4072 cygheap_user::ontherange: HOME is already in the environment /cygdrive/h
> 684 44037 [main] ls 4072 sigproc_init: process/signal handling enabled(1)
> 176 44213 [main] ls 4072 __cygwin_lock_lock: threadcount 1. not locking
> 167 44380 [main] ls 4072 __cygwin_lock_unlock: threadcount 1. not unlocking
>
>Some commands get as far as executing build_argv(). I'm not sure what
>to do next: has anyone seen anything like this before? Or, can anyone
>suggest how to go about debugging this?
If you've "scrubbed" your system before, then you might not be far enough
into customizing your environment that you shun the idea of reinstalling.
If that's the case, you might try removing Cygwin again and then create
the install directory as the user who will install Cygwin and then run
'setup.exe' using that as the install directory. You clearly have
permission problems or issues with an incomplete installation (i.e.
'/etc/group' is not accessible). But you may be better served by following
the prescribed steps at:
>Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
If or when you reinstall, pay close attention to any errors that show up
and inspect the '/var/log/setup.log' file.
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