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Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 13:23:54 +0200
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Subject: Re: Cygwin 1.7.12-1: exit code 1 during post-install regarding dirs in /dev
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On 4/4/2012 12:24 PM, Andre Loker wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to do a fresh installation of Cygwin 1.7.12-1 on a new
> Windows Server 2008 R2 machine. At the end of the installation I get a
> warning that bash.sh returned exit code 1.
>
> The related parts of the log:
> <<start>>
> 2012/04/04 11:53:05 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile
> /etc/postinstall/bash.sh
> ln: cannot remove `/dev/stdin': No such file or directory
> ln: cannot remove `/dev/stdout': No such file or directory
> ln: cannot remove `/dev/stderr': No such file or directory
> ln: cannot remove `/dev/fd': No such file or directory
> 2012/04/04 11:53:05 abnormal exit: exit code=1
> <<end>>
>
> Possibly related: I get errors a bit earlier in the log files:
>
> << start>>
> 2012/04/04 11:53:01 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile
> /etc/postinstall/000-cygwin-post-install.sh
> mkdir: cannot create directory `/dev/shm': No such file or directory
>
> Creating /dev/shm directory failed.
> POSIX semaphores and POSIX shared memory will not work
>
> mkdir: cannot create directory `/dev/mqueue': No such file or directory
>
> Creating /dev/mqueue directory failed.
> POSIX message queues will not work
> <<end>>
>
> I *suppose* the issue is related to this change in 1.7.12:
> "- Cygwin now automatically populates the /dev directory with all
> existing POSIX devices."
>
> Do I have to take any actions regarding those issues? If so, which?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Andre Loker
>

what is the output of "ls -l /dev" ?

Marco


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