From: "Brian Wilson" <wilson@ds.net>
To: Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8@gmail.com>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Windows 7
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:45:31 -0500
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I had a similar problem upgrading on XP.  I think my issue was related to a 
heap space allocation issue which prevents the shell from running during the 
installation.  I found that failed installations left shell processes running, 
but not doing anything useful.  

Check the documentation as I believe there is a fix for the heap space issue.  
In my case, I killed these useless shells and that allowed the Cygwin bash 
shell to start up with out heap space errors.  I cleaned out the 
/etc/postinstall directory by removing any shell scripts (rm *.sh) and 
rerunning the setup.  Cygwin installed okay for me after that.

Hope this helps.

Sincerely,

Brian S. Wilson
---------- Original Message -----------
From: Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Sent: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:50:53 -0500
Subject: Re: Windows 7

> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Dave Korn 
> <dave.korn.cygwin@........ wrote:
> > On 28/01/2010 06:28, Hirokazu Miura wrote:
> >> I am having problems in installing cygwin on a HP Pavilion 64bits 
platform.
> >
> >  HP tend to ship their boxes with a ton of irritating and semi-useless 
stuff
> > preinstalled.  Check if anything you have on the box is listed on BLODA:
> >
> > http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda
> >
> >    cheers,
> >      DaveK
> >
> Hello!
> I agree!
> This Dell Inspirion 1545 arrived wearing a heck of a lot of useless
> items, including their chosen Anti-virus programs.
> 
> I strongly suggest you go through that list of items on the FAQ, and
> see if anything on your system matches it.
> 
> Following it, then simply choose the steps that work for you. The one
> Eliot suggests in fact is how I normally proceed in point of fact.
> 
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