X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 10:33:10 -0700 From: Tom Schutter To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cydwin not starting - cygreadline6.dll missing Message-ID: <20090205173310.GN21060@proxix.com> References: <2473.134.157.170.59.1233849377.squirrel@mailhost.aero.jussieu.fr> <498B0FB4.8000500@etr-usa.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <498B0FB4.8000500@etr-usa.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) 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 I can confirm this issue. I have never tried to install 1.7 on my machine. After a total wipe of Cygwin (using the instructions at http://cygwin.com/faq.html section 2.17), I attempted to reinstall Cygwin. I used http://mirrors.xmission.com as the download site. I accepted the default set of packages. When running /etc/postinstall/update-info-dir.sh during the installation, I got this error: This application has failed to start because cygreadline6.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem. When I click OK, I get the same error for each of the other /etc/postinstall scripts. I have tried with http://mirrors.kernel.org and got the same problem. libreadline does not appear in the package list! On Thu 2009-02-05 10:11, Warren Young wrote: > Luca.Maltagliati@aero.jussieu.fr wrote: > > > > I installed cydwin (I have windows XP (SP3)) with the setup.exe, adding > > only the openssh to the basic. > > I don't suppose you tried, first, to install Cygwin 1.7, then later > installed 1.5? If so, this and other bad things will happen. See: > > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-01/msg00659.html > > The fix is to go back through setup.exe, and do a forced reinstall of > bash, libreadline, and libncurses, at minimum. > > Either that, or totally nuke your 1.7 attempt and retry the 1.5 install > from scratch. > > > Searching the package list gave me back zero results > > That's weird. I can confirm. It should give you libreadline6-*. Maybe > there's something broken with the package indexer. > > -- > 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/ > -- Tom Schutter First American - Proxix Solutions 303-440-7272 x6822 512-977-6822 -- 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/