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-pair-Authenticated: 209.68.2.80 Message-Id: <6.0.0.21.2.20031005201022.0776b150@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: 127.0.0.1:2110:tdierks AT 127 DOT 0 DOT 0 DOT 1 Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2003 20:24:15 -0400 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Tim Dierks Subject: Installation & Uninstallation issues Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed I use cygwin successfully on my laptop, but I'm having trouble getting it set up on my desktop. I've attempted to install three times now, and each time, the installation has failed in the same way. The immediate symptom is that shells have no PATH set, because /etc/profile wasn't created. However, other stuff is screwy, as well, which I believe resulted in some other problems I'm having. So rather than address the symptoms (by installing a good /etc/profile), I'm trying to cure the cause. The tail end of /var/log/setup.full is: 2003/10/05 20:07:49 running: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c /etc/postinstall/base-files-mketc.sh /etc/postinstall/base-files-mketc.sh: not found 2003/10/05 20:07:50 running: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c /etc/postinstall/base-files-profile.sh /etc/postinstall/base-files-profile.sh: not found 2003/10/05 20:07:50 running: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c /etc/postinstall/cron.sh /etc/postinstall/cron.sh: not found 2003/10/05 20:07:50 running: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c /etc/postinstall/gcc-mingw.sh /etc/postinstall/gcc-mingw.sh: not found 2003/10/05 20:07:50 running: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c /etc/postinstall/passwd-grp.sh /etc/postinstall/passwd-grp.sh: not found 2003/10/05 20:07:50 running: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c /etc/postinstall/terminfo.sh /etc/postinstall/terminfo.sh: not found 2003/10/05 20:07:50 running: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c /etc/postinstall/update-info-dir.sh /etc/postinstall/update-info-dir.sh: not found 2003/10/05 20:07:50 running: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c /etc/postinstall/wget.sh /etc/postinstall/wget.sh: not found And, in fact, those scripts are not there: instead, I've got files with each of those names with '.done' appended (e.g. "/etc/postinstall/base-files-mketc.sh.done"). However, these scripts have not been executed (or at least haven't run successfully). I'm installing from an Admin account for all users on Win2K (with up-to-date patches, SPs, etc.). My other problem: when removing previous installs to attempt clean re-installs, I am unable to delete /var/cron/tabs, even after making sure that the cron service is not running, renaming the cygwin directory, and restarting. This may be because one of my other "screwy" symptoms had to do with cron failing to start because it didn't have privileges to write some of its files, and it's left it in some state. But I can't figure out how to wipe the state and get Windows to let me delete the directory. Thanks for any help, - Tim -- 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/