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According to Eduard Witteveen on 11/25/2005 7:42 AM:
>>
>> Somehow, your installation of bash has failed.  Rerun setup.exe,
>> and select bash for reinstallation, so that the postinstall
>> script will run again and create /bin/sh.  Without a working
>> /bin/sh, many cygwin programs have extreme difficulty.
> 
> When i perform a reinstallation of bash, no /bin/sh is created. I also
> tried to run the postinstall manually but without any luck.
> Then i started with making a copy of bash.exe called sh.exe, also
> without any luck.

Can you look at /var/log/setup.log.full and see if there is anything in
there that is relevant to why the postinstall script failed?  I'm
suspecting a permissions problem.  All the postinstall script attempts to
do is "cp /bin/bash.exe /bin/sh.exe", once it determines that /bin/sh was
missing or out-of-date; so doing that manually should also work.

> 
> Is there otherwise the possibility for me to download a base-system
> package? Or should i install some other package to get this postinstall
> triggered to create the /bin/sh

The only packages that trigger the installation of /bin/sh are ash and
bash, and they are both part of the Base category.  Selecting "Reinstall"
in setup.exe for these packages should do the job, unless you have some
weird permissions problems which interferes with their ability to do the
copy of bash to sh.

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