Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <013701c221c7$f8730050$1800a8c0@LAPTOP> From: "Robert Collins" To: , References: Subject: Re: install process hangs on when run under windows 98 (using setup v2.249.2.4) Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 22:57:06 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Right, something is wrong with mkgroup. I'd offer to look into this myself, but time is at a premium just now. Corinna has looked at mkgroup recently, perhaps she can shed some light on this? Rob ----- Original Message ----- From: To: ; Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 10:38 PM Subject: RE: install process hangs on when run under windows 98 (using setup v2.249.2.4) > I have tried to run cygwin following a reboot after a hung install and think > I may have found something that may help : > > Cygwin runs fine - I get a shell prompt (after creating a home dir for me) I > try and run mkgroup (either mkgroup or mkgroup -?) and I get a message in > the shell window : > > BASH: /usr/bin/mkgroup: permission denied > > and a dialogue box which is titled error starting program saying : > > MKGROUP.EXE is linked to missing export ADVAPI32.DLL:LsaClose > > I click on OK and cygwin shell seems ok still - I can enter other commands > and exit fine. > > I checked my system and the DLL is in c:\windows\system from the properties > file version tab I have the version 4.80.1675 of the DLL on my system. > > Hope this helps, > > Mark > > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Collins [mailto:robert DOT collins AT syncretize DOT net] > Sent: 02 July 2002 12:35 > To: Bevan, Mark; cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > Subject: Re: install process hangs on when run under windows 98 (using > setup v2.249.2.4) > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: > To: ; > Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 8:30 PM > Subject: RE: install process hangs on when run under windows 98 (using setup > v2.249.2.4) > > > > I have attached a zip'ed version of the c:\cygwin\etc tree as requested > > Thanks. You've got win9x don't you? I need someone else on this list who has > 9x to confirm that the default content of the 'group' file should be empty. > (I don't think it should be. > > All the postinstall files show as completed (they've been renamed to > foo.done). This is probably due to the failing .dll location, which setup > won't detect. IOW we haven't managed to test the problem you experienced yet > :[. > > I think that a corrupt setup.ini has been released, as there was another > report of a missing cygwin package just earlier today. I haven't looked into > this yet, but will do so soon. > > Rob > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/