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 X-Info: This message was accepted for relay by smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net as the sender used SMTP authentication X-Trace: UmFuZG9tSVaKBbt3p3pvvBiKiGDL+E/lxH+daHBXjMukkJUCfS5i/BvcNtvK6eU6 Message-ID: <3ECD86E8.6080407@rfk.com> Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 22:26:48 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)" Reply-To: lhall AT rfk DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: AWLaFramboise AT aol DOT com CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Complete install failure for 'ordinary' install on WinXp using setup.exe References: <2A0E35CC DOT 09B00CFD DOT E8E247C1 AT aol DOT com> In-Reply-To: <2A0E35CC.09B00CFD.E8E247C1@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit AWLaFramboise AT aol DOT com wrote: > In a message dated 5/22/2003 7:35:40 PM Eastern Standard Time, lhall AT rfk DOT com writes: > >>>I have some kind of catastrophic install failure using >>>current setup.exe (2.340.2.5) on Windows XP for what would >>>seem to me to be an ordinary install. >>> >>>I have installed cygwin previously (but not within 6 months >>>or so), so I deleted my old cygwin install first. >> >>Please explain exactly what you did here. > > > In all honesty, it was an old install, and I'm not even sure > how old, and I probably have messed with (read "broken it") it > a good deal. I couldn't find the old setup program or some > other obvious uninstall means, so I just deleted all of > c:\cygwin OK, that'll do in this case, given the cygcheck data you've provided. >>>I downloaded the current setup.exe from the webpage a few >>>days ago, and began downloading the full cygwin distribution >>>using the 'Download from Internet' option, selecting the >>>'All' option instead of 'Default,' from the mirror >>>ftp://mirror.averse.net (the first one I found that worked). >>> >>>After several download sessions (I interrupted the download >>>a few times in between), I re-ran setup.exe with 'Install from >>>Local Directory,' again with the 'All' option on the base >>>catagory. >>> >>>Everything went fine, and all md5sums checked out, until >>>postinstall. All of these console windows flashed by, >>>and it seemed every one of them I could read had all sorts >>>of errors, such as missing ls, rm, etc. Testing the Cygwin >>>installation afterwards, it seemed to be unusable and >>>pretty much completely broken. >>> >>>The setup program itself had reported no errors, other than >>>whatever I saw in the postinstall console windows. >>> >>>C:\cygwin\var\log\setup.log seems ordinary enough: no >>>errors are reported. >>> >>>However, one odd thing I notice by examining the installation >>>is that I can't find ls.exe or rm.exe. They are not >>>in c:\bin, and no c:\usr\bin exists. >> >>Should they be? Setup will certainly warn you if you tell it >>to install in C:\. If you got no such warning, more than likely >>you actually installed in a subdirectory of C:\. > > > That was a typo. I had intended to write "c:\cygwin\bin" > and "c:\cygwin\usr\bin". The latter of these directories does > not exist on my computer after install, but I'm pretty sure it > should. Yeah, you should have c:\Cygwin\usr\bin. Regardless, it will be empty as far as Windows is concerned. Cygwin creates a mount point from C:\Cygwin\bin to /usr/bin. You do have this mount point created as indicated by the cygcheck output. So something did go wrong. However, this part you can easily recover from by creating 'c:\Cygwin\usr\bin' in the Explorer. This isn't critical to proper operation but it's worthwhile anyway. You can check out the /etc/postinstall directory. There should be a number of scripts there with the ".done" suffix. If there are any there without this, run them. >>>I have no idea where to begin on this. Can someone >>>help me out? >> >>I suspect mount problems but I really can't be very sure of >>anything without the appropriate information. See >> > > > Pardon me for providing incomplete information. Somehow I > missed finding the problems.html page on my own. This is the > complete output of "./cygcheck -s -v -r" run in the initial > wd: [snip] That's OK. Looks like you missed the part asking you to 'attach' rather than 'insert' the output into your message too. ;-) Looking at the results of this, I don't see allot of problems, with the possible exception that your home directory uses your name with spaces. You may want to change this in /etc/passwd so that you don't have spaces in your home directory, unless you're real partial to them and enjoy the grief they will cause. Beyond that, it seems the missing utilities you report are corroborated by your list of installed packages. Reviewing your list and comparing it against the list of packages at , I find you haven't installed the following packages: WindowMaker XFree86-base XFree86-doc XFree86-etc XFree86-f100 XFree86-fcyr XFree86-fenc XFree86-fnts XFree86-fscl XFree86-fsrv XFree86-html XFree86-jdoc XFree86-man XFree86-nest XFree86-prog XFree86-prt XFree86-ps XFree86-vfb apache autoconf-stable automake-stable bc byacc bzip2 ccache cgoban clear compface crypt cvs diff diffutils ed figlet fileutils findutils flex fortune fvwm gnugo grep indent irc jpeg libPropList libbz2_0 libbz2_1 libgdbm3 libintl libintl1 libncurses5 libncurses6 libpng2 libreadline4 libxslt links make mktemp mod_auth_mysql mod_auth_ntsec mod_dav mod_ssl more mt openbox opengl proftpd rcs regex robots setup sharutils shutdown ssmtp tetex-beta textutils time ttcp ucl units which xpm-nox zip zlib Not all of these are important but some packages in this list do correspond to the utilities you mention are missing. Also, since you mentioned that you downloaded and subsequently installed everything, this difference is worth noting. Can you check the packages you downloaded and verify that these packages do exist? Then, can you run setup again and see if it thinks these packages exist and are installed or not? -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/