More on 'setup' fails and breaks pre-existing Cygwin installation: cygcheck.out attached.

[Christopher M. Balz]

I was able to run 'cygcheck -s -v -r > cygcheck.out' with no problem.  
'cygcheck.out' is attached.
I do not understand what moving the Cygwin root directory out of the way 
would entail, but will try if necessary and I know what to do.

Please see my other e-mail just sent about the 'bash -norc'.

This sounds like a hard bug and I very much appreciate the help.  I am 
tight on time these days but use Cygwin very often, have used it for 
four years, and seek only to install most or all of the available Cygwin 
packages on my machine and run them out of the box.

- CB

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

Okay, I don't recall seeing the output of "cygcheck -svr" attached to any
of your messages, as requested in <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>.
Please *attach* the output rather than including it inline.  You should be
able to run cygcheck from a CMD prompt.

Did you try a clean install by moving your Cygwin root directory out of
the way?  Whether or not you're able to do this, and what exact errors you
get when doing this, might prove instructive...  FWIW, unless you have
non-standard mounts, you should be able to recover the original (albeit
non-working) installation by moving the old root directory back to
c:\cygwin...  But first things first -- we need to see the output of
"cygcheck -svr".

BTW, does running "c:\cygwin\bin\bash --norc" also result in no prompt?
If not, does that bash work normally (note that you'll need to explicitly
prepend "/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin" to your PATH before you'll be able
to run any commands)?
    Igor

On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Christopher M. Balz wrote:

 

The hang itself is indeed a soft hang.  I can click out of it using the
'Cancel' button, and then at least sometimes, 'setup' will tell me that
installation is complete.  Somewhere in these last clicks is where my
entire machine was taken down during two of my earlier attempts today.

   cd c:\cygwin\bin
   .\bash.exe --login -i

yields nothing, as before -- meaning that a blinking prompt is shown on
the line after the last command, and that's all.

- CB
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