X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4e41f5c20705040521m99aeef1u3f683a56f66e2b7f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 06:21:36 -0600 From: "Morgan Gangwere" <0 DOT fractalus AT gmail DOT com> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Cygwin Problems on Vista (Install and others) In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <612021330705031857s5e0bc1c8se769b588fd7c1588 AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: 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 On 5/3/07, N Y wrote: > I've read that some people can get Cygwin to run on Vista without > problems, but I've run into almost every reported problem. > > I've trying to install Cygwin on my new Dell laptop for two days now. > Intel Centrino Duo with Vista Ultimate. I'm installing for all users, > unix mode. From category view, I'm installing all groups except for > audio, databases, games, and publishing. I have the 2.510.2.2 > setup.exe. The installed cygwin1.dll is 1.5.24-cr-0x5f1. > > First problem: hang on gnuplot.sh > I tried everything: run as administrator, setting the compatibility mode, > set the Windows PATH to include "C:\cygwin\bin" before running > setup.exe (via cmd shell), disabling UAC - nothing worked. > Finally I opened Task Manager and manually killed the bash process. > That kicked setup to continue. Eventually I re-ran gnuplot.sh manually, > once I got bash running happily. > > Second problem: > When I started the cygwin shell (via the desktop shortcut), I got this message > > "Your group is currently "mkpasswd". This indicates that > the /etc/passwd (and possibly /etc/group) files should be rebuilt. > See the man pages for mkpasswd and mkgroup then, for example, run > mkpasswd -l [-d] > /etc/passwd > mkgroup -l [-d] > /etc/group > Note that the -d switch is necessary for domain users." > > So I ran mkpaswd and mkgroup and that problem went away. this isnt really a problem. its just cygwin wanting a /etc/passwd and /etc/group that it likes, but they didnt get generated because of a phase of the moon bug. (i get it with the user "admin" but not with the user "user" - both exist on my machine) > Third problem: > Then I tried to click the startx shortcut on the desktop. The xserver starts > but the xterm that comes with it never appears. I tried startx from the cygwin > bash shell. Sometimes it starts and an xterm appears. and sometimes it > exits right away. I closed all cygwin apps and ran ash from cmd.exe, > ran rebaseall. Now the startx works from the cygwin bash shell. erm... the startx shortcut is _supposed_ to do that. you can run this at a cygwin terminal or from a batch file for a child X window root and twm: X -display localhost:0 (blah) & (NOTE the "&" and YES it has to be localhost. no 127.0.0.1 's - Hast Worked For Me.) twm -display localhost:0 & (again, note the "&") > Fourth problem: > I wanted to quickly test my access to a remote system via rsh. > I open a cygwin bash shell and run "rsh user1 AT foo ls" and get back: > "12673 [main] rsh 4060 C:\cygwin\bin\rsh.exe: *** fatal error - couldn't dynami > cally determine load address for 'rcmd' (handle 0x74140000), Win32 error 127 > Hangup" i dont do rsh but have you tried this from another computer (with say PuTTY) - also, see if rsh's daemon is alive or if you need one.. i install everything and usually I dont get a real rsh daemon, so i compile the official one from source. > If anyone has any suggestions I'd love to hear it. > > N > > -- > 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/ > > -- Morgan gangwere "Space does not reflect society, it expresses it." -- Castells, M., Space of Flows, Space of Places: Materials for a Theory of Urbanism in the Information Age, in The Cybercities Reader, S. Graham, Editor. 2004, Routledge: London. p. 82-93. -- 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/