William Crosmun helped me out of this... remove /etc/setup/bash.lst.gz (it appears to be corrupt). rerun setup.exe that was it. thanks, Mario -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/