problems installing cygwin on vista

[Stephen Barclay]

Ruprecht Machleidt wrote:
>
> In the past, I have installed cygwin on several Windows XP
> systems with no problems.
>
> However, I am encountering severe problems installing
> cygwin on vista.
> The installation process stalls quietly during the postinstall
> phase at
> /etc/postinstall/gnuplot.sh
>
> The only way to end the process is to 'cancel'.
> No home diretory is created, no icons.
>
> In principal, the
> /var/log/setup.log.full
> file should reveal what's going wrong.
> Towards the end, this file contains repeatedly
> statements of the following nature:
>
> 2007/10/25 09:38:53 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c 
> /etc/postinstall/email.sh
> /usr/bin/bash: /cygdrive/c/Users/francesca/.bashrc: Bad address
> sed: can't read /etc/passwd: No such file or directory
> 2007/10/25 09:38:56 abnormal exit: exit code=2
> 2007/10/25 09:38:56 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c 
> /etc/postinstall/enscript.sh
> /usr/bin/bash: /cygdrive/c/Users/francesca/.bashrc: Bad address
> 2007/10/25 09:38:56 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c 
> /etc/postinstall/exim.sh
> /usr/bin/bash: /cygdrive/c/Users/francesca/.bashrc: Bad address
> sed: can't read /etc/passwd: No such file or directory
> 2007/10/25 09:38:57 abnormal exit: exit code=2
>
> To a knowledgeable person this may provide an indication
> of what's wrong.
>
> I greatly appreciate any advice.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Rup
>
Posting the same thing repeatedly does not get it answered any quicker and
can annoy people that may have the solution to your problem...

As people read your post, if they have input they will provide it..

In the mean time, why don't you read the following on what to include
in a problem report..

*http://cygwin.com/problems.html

*    especially the part about.*

Run cygcheck -s -v -r > cygcheck.out and include that file as /an 
attachment/ in your report. Please do /not/ compress or otherwise encode 
the output. Just attach it as a straight text file so that it can be 
easily viewed.*


Respectfully,


Stephen Barclay





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