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Subject: Re: Cygwin Problems on Vista (Install and others)
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I am also getting 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.


I would like to know how to re-run gnuplot.sh manually,






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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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"
> 
> No solution to this problem yet.
> 
> If anyone has any suggestions I'd love to hear it.
> 
> N
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