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Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:58:43 -0400
From: DY <yarringt@agora-net.com>
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Subject: Re: No etc/passwd (was) Re: (everything!) command not found
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I've got Windows Defender on here - it came with the computer and
doesn't show up under the Program Files, so I'm not sure that it's 
uninstallable.
I also have AVG on here, which isn't in the list of BLODA programs, but is
an antivirus program.  That was installed after cygwin, and I can remove it
if it is a problem. 

I'm fine with reinstalling with a beta version - clearly I'm not having 
tons of
success with the current version.  Is there anything I can do about Windows
Defender?  I can always download the cygwin setup program, then reboot
and start up windows in diagnostic startup mode (which only loads the
essential devices), install cygwin, then reboot in normal mode - would that
work?  Is there a better solution?

THANKS SO MUCH!  I've been going nuts for about 2 weeks now. 
-Debra

Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> On 8/18/2009 6:36 PM, DY wrote:
>> It definitely made a difference.  I never had to do it before, but when
>> I did it this time I
>> could suddenly do ls and just about everything else inside of cygwin,
>> whereas I couldn't
>> before I set those things in Windows.
>> Here's what I can tell you. I was installing cygwin on a clean machine -
>> I just bought it.
>> It most definitely didn't have cygwin on it at all. I hadn't copied
>> anything over from my
>> old hard drive.
>
> OK, thanks for the info.  The reason adding Cygwin to your Windows path
> helped is because your postinstall scripts aren't running.  So the path
> isn't getting set up properly for the Cygwin environment.  Setting it in
> the Windows environment hides/resolves that so Cygwin utilities run as
> they should.  There's certainly nothing wrong with adding the Cygwin
> paths to the Windows environment, as I mentioned.  It just isn't a
> requirement in a successful installation.  Setting CYGWIN_HOME, as I
> pointed out, is a no-op.
>
>> Also, what I've done at this point was remove cygwin completely (afaik)
>> by doing umount,
>> then removing the cygwin directory, then going into the registry and
>> removing cygwin and
>> something else that had to do with cygwin (I'm sorry - I don't remember
>> exactly what it
>> was). I then reinstalled cygwin. After reinstalling cygwin, I still
>> didn't have etc/passwd
>> or etc/group. So I went back to the install process, looked in base,
>> chose to reinstall
>> base_passwd (fyi, everything in base said "keep"), ran the setup again,
>> and then I got
>> etc/passwd and etc/group. Then, being afraid that something else hadn't
>> installed, I
>> reinstalled everything in base.
>> Here is the setup.log.full as it stands now. I'm trying to run cygcheck
>> as specified in the
>> problems page, but I think it's getting stuck in an infinte loop (or is
>> it supposed to print out
>> what looks like the same thing again and again and again for over 5
>> minutes? - a lot of
>> ...\Wow6432Node\Wow6432Node\Wow6432Node\... , and the longer it runs,
>> the more
>> \Wow6432Node\...'s there are before it gets to a bottom line of
>> Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\Program Options).
>> Is it at all possible that there's something funny about where I'm
>> running setup.exe from?
>
> Ah, so you're on x64.  Presumably WinXP was not?  You'll probably find
> that Cygwin 1.7 <http://cygwin.com/#beta-test> handles this better, if
> you're interested in trying it.
>
> I can see from your 'setup.log.full' that all your postinstall scripts
> are failing.  Do you have any <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#BLODA> 
> installed?
>
> -- 
> Larry
>
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