X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:18:15 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: 1.7.x: Installation fails in post install scripts - abnormal exit: exit code=128 From: Al To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 > Thanks for the suggestion, but the install failed too much for even > this to work - I don't have an /etc/profile. This is what I get: > > /usr/bin/bash: /etc/profile: No such file or directory > > I confirmed in Windows Explorer that the directory isn't there. To get a step forward, I would suggest to create a fresh windows user with admin rights and without whitespace in it's name. If that works, you come closer to the issue. If it doesn't work there must be something fundamentally wrong with your windows setup. Al --=20 Caution crosser: =A0Runnig Gentoo/Prefix on Cygwin/Vista. All stupid questions are related to that context. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple