RE: New install of 1.5.10 replacing 1.5.6: many things not working

["Chris Carlson" <ccarlson at istor dot com>]

Actually, I've had numerous problems installing cygwin.  I have two
machines at home running Windows XP and also my office computer running
Windows 2000 Pro.

Installing a clean system (no cygwin installed before) installed on my
two home machines but hung in the postinstall scripts.  I finally had to
kill the script and run the remaining ones by hand.  That was a few
months ago, so I didn't bother to tell anyone.

This time, I tried to upgrade my cygwin at the office since the one I
have at home is so much better.  They had 1.3.10 installed.
Fortunately, I zipped the entire c:/cygwin directory before doing it.
Everything was so corrupt, I finally deleted the entire cygwin tree and
unzipped what I had saved.

Here are some of the things I tried:
1 - I left the "setup.exe" showing "Default" and installed from
sigunix.cwru.edu.  It failed for some reason, I didn't bother to check
the logs.
2 - I tried mirrors.kernel.org and took the trouble to try and add a few
things that I installed at home and liked.  It also failed in the middle
for some reason, I didn't bother to check the logs.  [If I only had the
time to investigate all this stuff, but we're working long hours.]
3 - Finally, I renamed c:/cygwin to c:/cygwin1 and tried to perform a
clean install.  I used sources-redhat.mirror.redwire.net and selected
"Install" instead of "Default" since that's supposed to install
everything.
4 - This morning (I had left it to install overnight), I had an error
popup window telling me:


The dynamic link library cygintl-1.dll could not be found in the
specified path (path is listed here and it includes c:\cygwin\bin)


It seems that this error was generated from one of the postinstall
scripts when it ran grep.exe.

After clearing the error (pressing the OK button), I got about two dozen
more of these errors from other calls to grep and one from a call to
find in various postinstall scripts.

I did a search on c:\cygwin from a Windows Explorer window and there is
no file named cygintl-1.dll anywhere in the tree.  I also searched under
c:\WINNT, although I didn't expect it to be there.

Oh, well, I tried running bash.  It comes up in /cygwin/bin, as Joe
indicated, and I can't run "cat" or "more" to look at the passwd file.
Seems "cat" isn't in any of the bin directories, and "more" can't find
cygncurses6.dll.

So, what have I done wrong?  What can I do to fix it?

Thanks for any assistance you can provide.

Chris Carlson
iStor Networks, Inc.


-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Ford [mailto:ford@vss.fsi.com] 
Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 9:10 AM
To: Joe Landman
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: New install of 1.5.10 replacing 1.5.6: many things not
working

On Fri, 28 May 2004, Joe Landman wrote:

> Hi folks:
>
>   I have multiple machines with 1.5.6 installed.  I wanted to upgrade
to
> 1.5.10 (bug fixes, speed, etc).  Stuff worked (for the most part) in
> 1.5.6. I was/am looking to using it for application development on
windows.

Are you trying to upgrade just the Cygwin package, or all Cygwin
packages?

>   With 1.5.10 install, I get error messages about find.exe being given
> bad arguments.

This usually means you have a PATH problem and are getting the Windows
version of find rather than the Cygwin one.

> Many of the post-install scripts die with problems with grep (more in
a
> moment).  When I open the cygbash shell, it puts me into /usr/bin by
> default,

Check you /etc/passwd file and make sure your user home directory is set
correctly.

> and the moment I cd out of there, I lose any ability to run
> basic commands such as ls.

Sounds like . is in your PATH, but /usr/bin isn't.

> Anything that tries to use grep is rewarded with an error message
about
> /bin/grep not existing.  Quick ls'ing around (find does not work...
> sigh) does not locate a grep.
>
> Ok, I may be thick, but I think that there might be a problem here.
>
> The machines with problems:
>
> 1) Windows XP Home laptop.  SP1 installed.   512 MB ram
>
> 2) Windows 2000 desktop.  SP_something_or_other installed.  768 MB ram
>
> Both had similar working copies of 1.5.6 installed.  Starting up the
> cygbash shell resulted in being in the /home/landman directory (where
I
> thought I should be).  Everything properly pathed out in the older
version.
>
> Any thoughts?  I don't have to re-install the OS... (I hope :( ).

Try a Cygwin reinstall after checking out your PATH issues.

Please read this:
> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html

and attach cygcheck output.  Maybe then someone will have a better idea.

-- 
Brian Ford
Senior Realtime Software Engineer
VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems
FlightSafety International
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