X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <488F6FCE.4020407@cygwin.com> Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:30:22 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080723 Remi/2.0.0.16-1.fc5.remi Lightning/0.8 Thunderbird/2.0.0.16 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Download Cygwin once and intall it several times References: <032d01c8f0d3$3daf6650$9601a8c0 AT CAM DOT ARTIMI DOT COM> <20080728211557 DOT GA7646 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <488E3FF7 DOT 8000907 AT bmts DOT com> <20080728215055 DOT GC7646 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <20080729011504 DOT GB9423 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com peterpan1616 wrote: > I re do all the procedure that I can summarize: > > 1) from www.cygwin.com I download setup.exe on the PC_A > 2) Using PC_A I download all the distribution fron HEANET.IE in the > temp dir c:/temp_cygwin > 3) On the PC_B I erased all related to cygwin (file, directory and > using regedit all releted to registry with cygwin and cygnus > 4) I copied setup.exe and temp_cygwin from PC_A to PC_B > 5) Using setup.exe I installed cygwin on PC_B. > 6) I created the environment variable HOME equal to c:\cygwin\home ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This step is not a requirement. I don't recommend it. > 7) I created the home directory parallel to bin lib etc ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This step is also not a requirement. I don't recommend it. > 8) I launched the icon on the desktop > I obtained a window where the prompt is bash-3.2$ where I can't run any command. From your cygcheck output, I have to conclude that 'setup.exe' didn't run its postinstall scripts. You can verify this by looking in 'c:\cygwin\etc\postinstall' for any scripts without a '.done' suffix. My guess is you'll see allot of those. Why that would happen in your case, I cannot say. One common occurrence that can result in this is . If you have any of the listed software or similar AV/anti-spam/anti-spyware, you might try uninstalling it for the purposes of the Cygwin installation. If you don't have any BLODA, then you may be able to solve your problem by just rerunning 'setup.exe'. This should cause the postinstall scripts to be run. If that doesn't work, you can invoke 'c:\cygwin\bin\bash' directly, cd to '/etc/postinstall' and run each of the scripts yourself. This is brute force but should be enough to get your new installation properly configured. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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/