stackdumps during install on windows vista + other problems

[Eric Lilja]

Hello, I just installed Cygwin on my new laptop that is running Windows
Vista Business edition. I've used cygwin for a few years but this is my
first time ever using Windows Vista.

I did my usual install (mostly developement related packages, no X), 
then I fired up bash to get the skeleton files copied to my home 
directory. That seemed to work fine. Anyway, then I closed cygwin down 
and when I was about to copy my old .bashrc and .inputrc I noticed two 
stackdump files in the c:/cygwin directory. I don't know how helpful 
they are going to be but I'm attaching them anyway. Then I started bash 
again, this time with the new .bashrc and .inputrc and bash complains:
Your group is currently "mkpasswd".  This indicates that
the /etc/passwd (and possibly /etc/group) files should be rebuilt.
See the man pages for mkpasswd and mkgroup then, for example, run
mkpasswd -l [-d] > /etc/passwd
mkgroup  -l [-d] > /etc/group
Note that the -d switch is necessary for domain users.

I must admit I haven't tried following the suggestions displayed. If I 
don't have really wierd settings on this mahcine I guess it might be 
because of the stackdumping processes during the installation phase.

Anyway, I performed a cygcheck -svr > cygcheck.out which is attached.
But something weird happens:
$ cygcheck -svr > cygcheck.out
'id' program not found
'id' program not found

However, I still get a cygcheck.out-file but I have never seen that 'id' 
stuff before. Btw, looking at the outfile gives me the impression that 
cygheck thinks Windows Vista is not supported, but I thought the 
problems with it (something involving manifests iirc) were sorted out 
months ago?

Anyway, the little I've tried with cygwin seems to work fine but the 
stackdumps during the installtion phase and the warnings I get when 
launching bash and running cygcheck worries me so I thought it would be 
  a good idea to post about it here. Happy holidays!

- Eric
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