X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,TW_MK,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: Adam Dinwoodie To: "cygwin@cygwin.com" Subject: RE: Problems with installation Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 17:37:17 +0000 Deferred-Delivery: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 17:37:00 +0000 Message-ID: References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id qBIHbhJd008574 Samantha Kolpak wrote: > I tried installing the cygwin program on my laptop; however, my screen > reads the following: > > Your group is currently "mkpasswd". This indicates that your > gid is not in /etc/group and your uid is not in /etc/passwd. > > The /etc/passwd (and possibly /etc/group) files should be rebuilt. > See the man pages for mkpasswd and mkgroup then, for example, run > > mkpasswd -l [-d] > /etc/passwd > mkgroup -l [-d] > /etc/group > > Note that the -d switch is necessary for domain users. What did you do to get your screen to read like that? Did you try following these instructions? What happened? > I am unable to compile any codes and when I tried re-downloading the > program, I was unable to. What action steps should I take to fix this > issue. When you say you were "unable to", what do you mean? I assume you don't mean your browser can't download Cygwin's setup.exe, as that's certainly not a problem with Cygwin. Please read through the problem reporting guidelines for advice on how to ask for help usefully: > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html -- Adam Dinwoodie Messages posted to this list are made in a personal capacity. -- 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