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From: "Bryan A. Zimmer" <baz58 AT comcast DOT net>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Problems installing Cygwin
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:47:32 -0500
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Hello.

I have used Cygwin since the year 2000, possibly 1999.

Throughout the years I have had no problem installing and using my
Cygwin installation; first on Win98, WinNt, Windows 2000, and Windows =
XP.

This year however I have not been able to achieve a good installation of =
Cygwin. even though the steps I have taken are exactly the same ones I =
used in the past: From the "setup.exe" program, using either "Install 
directly
from the Internet" (with direct connection), or Downloading it
first, then installing from a local directory.

What I get are problems with the post-install scripts, which often hang
there, doing nothing.

I am working in XP/SP3 now.

Most recently the post-install scripts seem to have run fine, and the
installation was complete, I attempted to start Cygwin. I even took the
precaution of creating the password and group files with the mkpasswd
and mkgroup programs, with the commands:

$ mkpasswd -l -g > /etc/passwd
$ mkgroup -l > /etc/group

I have also made sure my home directory in the Windows environment was set 
to
HOME=C:\cygwin\home\baz
and that the CYGWIN environment variable was set to:
CYGWIN=ntsec binmode tty glob
(I also tried with "nontsec")

Having done this, I can press the "Cygwin" icon and get a command console
 that LOOKS like Cygwin, but the directory I get places in is /usr/bin, and 
there
is not even a default path, so that I have to type in things like "/bin/ls" 
or
"/bin/mount".

Doing a "/bin/bash --login -i" has the same effect, as do
all attempt to start the program with Cygwin.bat from a cmd.exe prompt.

I do not know if I have missed some crucial and recent change, or what.
The same installation process used to work just fine. This year (2008),
I have only had the non-success described above.

Please help if you can.

Bryan Zimmer
baz58 (at) comcast dot net


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