X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Berber?= Subject: Re: 2.510.2.2: bash won't open after install Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 13:18:38 -0600 Lines: 57 Message-ID: References: <22ebf81a0512271155g5159a209o62dfc4e37de19c43 AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> <22ebf81a0512280617vfa1571x216966e0445ff6ea AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) In-Reply-To: <22ebf81a0512280617vfa1571x216966e0445ff6ea@mail.gmail.com> OpenPGP: url=ldap://keyserver.pgp.com X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 Nick Low wrote: > This morning, I tried to reinstall everything and see if that would > make a difference. It did not seem to matter though. I have attached > both the setup.log and setup.log.full files to this message. Try not to send such big files, and if you have to, why not compress them? > It appears that none of the postinstall scripts (which are all called > using bash) are running on this server. >=20 > The 00ash.sh which looks like it is supposed to copy the bash.exe to > sh.exe does not appear to be doing anything, nor does an error get > generated anywhere either. I still do not have a sh.exe file in the > /bin directory. >=20 > According to the installer application, I am trying to install bash > version 3.0-14. >=20 > ---------------------------- >=20 > OK - now here is some weirdness to add to the mix, which hopefully > will give someone the information they need to answer my question. >=20 > I ran 'strace bash > bashtrace.out' to collect data off of that in > case it was asked for, and the bash prompt came up! I was then able > to run all of the post installation scripts manually. All of the > files in the /etc directory were created properly. Then, I opened my > bash shell window using the shortcut on the desktop successfully too. >=20 > Thinking that everything was now fine, I close both the cmd window > running strace and the bash window, and the old habit was once again > displayed. The bash window flashed on the screen and went away. >=20 > So, I opened up a new cmd window, reran 'strace bash > bashtrace.out', > got a new bash prompt in that window and was then able to once again > launch bash from its shortcut on the desktop. >=20 > Any help would be appreciated greatly. There is a big difference between running "strace bash > bashstrace.out" and using the cygwin.bat file: one is running bash with no parameters the other= is running "bash --login -i". This means that you probably have user configuration problems, it could be a Windows Server 2003 problem, or your $HOME is in some weird place, or whate= ver. Why don't you edit the cygwin.bat file, put a "pause" at the end, and see w= hat the error message says? --=20 Ren=E9 Berber -- 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/