Install problem on XP SP2

["Aaron W. LaFramboise" <aaronpurpleleaf4 at aaronwl dot com>]

I've been unable to successfully install Cygwin on an XP SP2 machine 
after several tries.

setup.exe appears to complete successfully, after running various 
postinstall scripts, but when run, the installation is clearly broken. 
The default bash prompt displays, PATH is not set properly, and PWD is 
/usr/bin.

I installed by downloading to a local directory, verifying that all 
files were downloaded, then installing from a local directory, all using 
setup.exe.

From memory, the first time you run a login shell in a new Cygwin 
installation, some special scripts run to prepare the environment; this 
does not appear to be happening.

Inspecting setup.log and setup.log.full, there are tons of lines which 
look like:
2007/04/17 21:04:36 io_stream_cygfile: fopen failed 2 No such file or 
directory
Also, most of the postinstall scripts had apparent errors which looked like:
2007/04/17 21:46:36 abnormal exit: exit code=0

This appears to be the same problem that Archana experienced three days 
ago here: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2007-03/msg00429.html>.  I 
can't find further reports of this problem, so it seems likely this 
breakage is due to a recent change.

Please see a copy of setup.log at 
<http://www.cox-internet.com/aaronesque/temp/cygwin/setup.log>.  I have 
attached the output of "cygcheck -s -v -r" to this message.

Specs:
Platform: Windows XP Home SP2
Cygwin DLL: 1.5.24(0.156/4/2) 2007-01-31 10:57
setup.ini timestamp: Mon Apr 16 07:31:02 2007 (1176726662)
install type: Full Download, Full Install, no previous install
Mirror: ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/sourceware.org/pub/cygwin
Virus checker: none


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