X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:41:19 -0400 From: "Michael D. Adams" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Setup.exe Problems on Vista In-Reply-To: <006801c785fe$e9e058d0$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <462B002F.A1E27066@dessent.net> <462C0C88.F09E959B@dessent.net> <006801c785fe$e9e058d0$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 4/23/07, Dave Korn wrote: > On 24 April 2007 00:19, Michael D. Adams wrote: > > On 4/22/07, Brian Dessent wrote: > >>>> The workaround for this problem that I have found is to set the > >>>> *Windows* path to include C:\cygwin\bin before running setup.exe. So > >>>> for example this sequence works: > >>>> > >>>> set PATH=C:\cygwin\bin;%PATH% > >>>> setup.exe > >> Just now I installed Vista under VMware to try installing Cygwin. It > >> worked fine using the latest version of setup.exe. I did not have to > >> disable UAC but it did prompt me to run as Administrator (which it does > >> for any executable named setup.exe IIRC.) Postinstall scripts all ran > >> fine, sh.exe was there and there was no need to put \cygwin\bin in the > >> PATH manually. > > > > I tried a fresh install of cygwin (after stashing away the old version > > (with move, but I skipped the unmoust since I use the default mounts > > anyway)) with setup.exe version 2.562 (from the snapshots). Oddly, > > while sh.exe is now being created and the prompt is the colored one > > that Cygwin usually sets, /etc/passwd is not being created. I am > > uncertain whether this is the same bug manifested in a new way or if > > it might be a new bug. (Obligatory grumble about Vista being a pain.) > > > > Did you check your /etc/passwd? I only noticed it b/c when I started > > the shell my home directory was set to C:\Users\ instead of > > C:\cygwin\home\. (C:\Users is Vista's version of what in XP > > is C:\Documents and Settings.) > > What's going on here could be related to security changes in the way Vista > handles dll and executable search paths, perhaps, but that's fairly > speculative. > > Which reminds me. Isn't it about time this conversation had some input from > cygcheck on the various systems involved? Do you just want a 'cygcheck -c' or is there another option you'd like the output from? Michael D. Adams -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/