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 Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 14:16:04 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: A vexing installation problem Message-ID: <20041130191604.GA7909@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20041129071451 DOT GA15469 AT sonic DOT net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041129071451.GA15469@sonic.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 11:14:51PM -0800, David Hinds wrote: >A couple days ago, I tried to update a quite old cygwin installation >on a Windows XP SP2 box to the latest (1.5.12-1). After the update, >all Cygwin programs exit immediately and silently. I've tried >scrubbing the Windows registry of anything with a "Cyg" in it, >deleting the Cygwin tree, and reinstalling from scratch, with the same >result. Running "strace" on any Cygwin program shows apparently >normal output (as far as I can tell) up to a point; and then zippo. > >For example, here's the end of 'strace ls': > > 149 42033 [main] ls 4072 pwdgrp::load: /etc/group > 140 42173 [main] ls 4072 pwdgrp::load: strange path_conv problem > 140 42313 [main] ls 4072 pwdgrp::load: /etc/group load failed > 152 42465 [main] ls 4072 __cygwin_lock_lock: threadcount 1. not locking > 151 42616 [main] ls 4072 __cygwin_lock_unlock: threadcount 1. not unlocking > 148 42764 [main] ls 4072 pwdgrp::read_group: Completing /etc/group: mkpasswd:S-1-5-21-1844237615-725345543-682003330-513:401:dhinds > 442 43206 [main] ls 4072 cygheap_user::ontherange: what 2, pw 0x10011018 > 147 43353 [main] ls 4072 cygheap_user::ontherange: HOME is already in the environment /cygdrive/h > 684 44037 [main] ls 4072 sigproc_init: process/signal handling enabled(1) > 176 44213 [main] ls 4072 __cygwin_lock_lock: threadcount 1. not locking > 167 44380 [main] ls 4072 __cygwin_lock_unlock: threadcount 1. not unlocking > >Some commands get as far as executing build_argv(). I'm not sure what >to do next: has anyone seen anything like this before? Or, can anyone >suggest how to go about debugging this? Since this strace is bound to be pretty small, please send the complete strace here for perusal. cgf -- 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/