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Date:	Thu, 10 Feb 2011 21:00:15 -0500
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On 02/10/2011 08:16 PM, Gerry Reno wrote:
> After having so much difficulty post-upgrade Cygwin 1.5 to 1.7 on my
> Windows 2003 R2 WOW64 machine:
>
>     I prepared a fresh installation of Windows 2003 R2 WOW64 and
> installed Cygwin 1.7.7 using setup.exe from the cygwin.com site.
>
>     Conclusion: A fresh install of Cygwin 1.7.7 FAILS on Windows 2003 R2
> WOW64.
>
>
> There are numerous postinstall failures:
>
>     Package: base-cygwin
>             000-cygwin-post-install.sh exit code 128
>     Package: coreutils
>             coreutils.sh exit code 1
>     Package: terminfo
>             terminfo.sh exit code 35584
>     Package: bash
>             bash.sh exit code 128
>     Package: terminfo0
>             terminfo0.sh exit code 128
>     Package: base-files
>             base-files-profile.sh exit code 128
>             base-files-mketc.sh exit code 128
>     Package: man
>             man.sh exit code 128
>
>
>
> The bash login shell fails:
>
>     bash-4.1# echo $PATH
>     /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wb
>     em:/cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft SQL Server/90/Tools/binn/
>     bash-4.1#
>
>
> No PATH is set.
>
>     bash-4.1# /usr/bin/cat /etc/profile
>     /usr/bin/cat: /etc/profile: No such file or directory
>
>
> No system-wide profile.
>
>
> I've attached a cygcheck.out.
>
> Please let me know if you would like anymore information.  I'll keep
> this machine around as is for a few days if it will help.
>
>
> Regards,
> Gerry
>
>   

I went and cleared out everything and started over but first moving the
DEP setting from All to Windows-only.

This time the Cygwin installation completed without postinstall errors
and the bash login shell is working.

    What I think would be good is for Cygwin setup to detect and warn
    about the DEP setting on Windows 2003 / Windows 2008.


What happened in my case was that I originally had a good installation
of Cygwin 1.5 on Windows 2003 that apparently worked fine with DEP in
the restrictive setting.  It was only after I upgraded it to Cygwin 1.7
that problems appeared. 

I'm now going to try a Cygwin reinstall on my original machine after
changing the DEP setting to see if the 1.7 upgrade installation can be
fixed.


Regards,
Gerry



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