Cygwin inoperable immediately following install

Tue Sep 11 05:00:00 GMT 2007

Hi:

I just tried to install Cygwin on an HP Pavilion running Windows XP Media
Center Edition (which I think is only different in having a some media
programs preloaded). After I installed Cygwin I tried to run (in this order)
the cygwin.bat batch file, ash.exe, bash.exe, and Run.exe. None opened; I
just got a generic dialog box from Windows saying that there was [A problem
running this program. Reinstallation may solve this problem.] (I
paraphrase). I tried that. Tried running random .exe files from the bin
directory.

After looking around at the FAQ, I checked out the setup.txt log; all I
found out of the ordinary was a series of pairs of lines along this format:

2007/09/10 22:25:26 running: C:\Cygwin\\bin\bash.exe -c
/etc/postinstall/00ash.sh
2007/09/10 22:25:26 abnormal exit: exit code=-1073741515

Are .sh files the post-install scripts that the install guide mentions? What
error does the exit code -1073741515 indicate?

Oh, and just noticing the beginning of the log, with a series of failed
fopen() calls; I don't think that would be a problem (I was installing from
directory), but I really have no idea.

How can I get Cygwin running on my system?

Thanks a lot,

asaz989

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Copy of Setup Log (setup.txt)
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2007/09/10 22:23:14 Starting cygwin install, version 2.573.2.2
2007/09/10 22:23:14 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/last-action) failed
2 No such file or directory
2007/09/10 22:23:14 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/last-mirror) failed
2 No such file or directory
2007/09/10 22:23:14 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/last-connection)
failed 2 No such file or directory
2007/09/10 22:23:14 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/last-cache) failed 2
No such file or directory
2007/09/10 22:23:14 Current Directory: F:\
2007/09/10 22:23:14 Changing gid to Users
2007/09/10 22:23:14 Could not open service McShield for query, start and
stop. McAfee may not be installed, or we don't have access.
2007/09/10 22:23:16 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/installed.db) failed
2 No such file or directory
2007/09/10 22:23:16 source: from cwd
2007/09/10 22:23:41 root: C:\Cygwin\ binary system
2007/09/10 22:23:47 source: from cwd
2007/09/10 22:23:48 root: C:\Cygwin\ binary system
2007/09/10 22:23:57 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/last-cache) failed 2
No such file or directory
2007/09/10 22:23:57 Selected local directory: C:\Documents and
Settings\Administrator\Desktop\DELETE
2007/09/10 22:23:58 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/timestamp) failed 2
No such file or directory
2007/09/10 22:24:39 Installing file://C:\Documents <file:///C:/Documents>and
Settings\Administrator\Desktop\DELETE/http%3a%2f%2fwww.centervenus.com%2fmirrors%2fcygwin/release/alternatives/alternatives-
1.3.29a-1.tar.bz2
2007/09/10 22:24:39 Installing file://C:\Documents <file:///C:/Documents>and
Settings\Administrator\Desktop\DELETE/http%3a%2f%2fwww.centervenus.com%2fmirrors%2fcygwin/release/ash/ash-
20040127-3.tar.bz2
2007/09/10 22:24:39 Installing file://C:\Documents <file:///C:/Documents>and
Settings\Administrator\Desktop\DELETE/http%3a%2f%2fwww.centervenus.com%2fmirrors%2fcygwin/release/base-files/base-
files-3.7-1.tar.bz2
2007/09/10 22:24:40 Installing file://C:\Documents <file:///C:/Documents>and
Settings\Administrator\Desktop\DELETE/http%3a%2f%2fwww.centervenus.com%2fmirrors%2fcygwin/release/base-passwd/base-
passwd-2.2-1.tar.bz2
2007/09/10 22:24:40 Installing file://C:\Documents <file:///C:/Documents>and
Settings\Administrator\Desktop\DELETE/http%3a%2f%2fwww.centervenus.com%2fmirrors%2fcygwin/release/bash/bash-
3.2.25-16.tar.bz2
2007/09/10 22:24:40 Installing file://C:\Documents <file:///C:/Documents>and
Settings\Administrator\Desktop\DELETE/http%3a%2f%2fwww.centervenus.com%2fmirrors%2fcygwin/release/bzip2/bzip2-
1.0.3-2.tar.bz2
2007/09/10 22:24:41 Installing file://C:\Documents <file:///C:/Documents>and
Settings\Administrator\Desktop\DELETE/http%3a%2f%2fwww.centervenus.com%2fmirrors%2fcygwin/release/coreutils/coreutils-
6.9-4.tar.bz2
2007/09/10 22:24:46 Installing file://C:\Documents <file:///C:/Documents>and
Settings\Administrator\Desktop\DELETE/http%3a%2f%2fwww.centervenus.com%2fmirrors%2fcygwin/release/crypt/crypt-
1.1-1.tar.bz2
2007/09/10 22:24:48 Installing file://C:\Documents <file:///C:/Documents>and
Settings\Administrator\Desktop\DELETE/http%3a%2f%2fwww.centervenus.com%2fmirrors%2fcygwin/release/cygutils/cygutils-
1.3.2-1.tar.bz2
2007/09/10 22:24:48 Installing file://C:\Documents <file:///C:/Documents>and
Settings\Administrator\Desktop\DELETE/http%3a%2f%2fwww.centervenus.com%2fmirrors%2fcygwin/release/cygwin/cygwin-
1.5.24-2.tar.bz2
2007/09/10 22:24:50 Installing file://C:\Documents <file:///C:/Documents>and
Settings\Administrator\Desktop\DELETE/http%3a%2f%2fwww.centervenus.com%2fmirrors%2fcygwin/release/cygwin-doc/cygwin-
doc-1.4-4.tar.bz2
2007/09/10 22:24:54 Installing file://C:\Documents <file:///C:/Documents>and
Settings\Administrator\Desktop\DELETE/http%3a%2f%2fwww.centervenus.com%2fmirrors%2fcygwin/release/editrights/editrights-
1.01-1.tar.bz2
2007/09/10 22:24:54 Installing file://C:\Documents <file:///C:/Documents>and
Settings\Administrator\Desktop\DELETE/http%3a%2f%2fwww.centervenus.com%2fmirrors%2fcygwin/release/findutils/findutils-
4.3.8-1.tar.bz2
2007/09/10 22:24:54 Installing file://C:\Documents <file:///C:/Documents>and
Settings\Administrator\Desktop\DELETE/http%3a%2f%2fwww.centervenus.com%2fmirrors%2fcygwin/release/gawk/gawk-
3.1.5-4.tar.bz2
2007/09/10 22:24:55 Installing file://C:\Documents <file:///C:/Documents>and
Settings\Administrator\Desktop\DELETE/http%3a%2f%2fwww.centervenus.com%2fmirrors%2fcygwin/release/grep/grep-
2.5.1a-4.tar.bz2
2007/09/10 22:24:55 Installing file://C:\Documents <file:///C:/Documents>and
Settings\Administrator\Desktop\DELETE/http%3a%2f%2fwww.centervenus.com%2fmirrors%2fcygwin/release/groff/groff-
1.18.1-2.tar.bz2
2007/09/10 22:25:03 Installing file://C:\Documents <file:///C:/Documents>and
Settings\Administrator\Desktop\DELETE/http%3a%2f%2fwww.centervenus.com%2fmirrors%2fcygwin/release/gzip/gzip-
1.3.12-2.tar.bz2
2007/09/10 22:25:03 Installing file://C:\Documents <file:///C:/Documents>and
Settings\Administrator\Desktop\DELETE/http%3a%2f%2fwww.centervenus.com%2fmirrors%2fcygwin/release/less/less-
382-1.tar.bz2
2007/09/10 22:25:03 Installing file://C:\Documents <file:///C:/Documents>and
Settings\Administrator\Desktop\DELETE/http%3a%2f%2fwww.centervenus.com%2fmirrors%2fcygwin/release/libiconv/libiconv2/libiconv2-
1.11-1.tar.bz2
2007/09/10 22:25:03 Installing file://C:\Documents <file:///C:/Documents>and
Settings\Administrator\Desktop\DELETE/http%3a%2f%2fwww.centervenus.com%2fmirrors%2fcygwin/release/gettext/libintl2/libintl2-
0.12.1-3.tar.bz2
2007/09/10 22:25:03 Installing file://C:\Documents <file:///C:/Documents>and
Settings\Administrator\Desktop\DELETE/http%3a%2f%2fwww.centervenus.com%2fmirrors%2fcygwin/release/gettext/libintl3/libintl3-
0.14.5-1.tar.bz2
2007/09/10 22:25:03 Installing file://C:\Documents <file:///C:/Documents>and
Settings\Administrator\Desktop\DELETE/http%3a%2f%2fwww.centervenus.com%2fmirrors%2fcygwin/release/gettext/libintl8/libintl8-
0.15-1.tar.bz2
2007/09/10 22:25:03 Installing file://C:\Documents <file:///C:/Documents>and
Settings\Administrator\Desktop\DELETE/http%3a%2f%2fwww.centervenus.com%2fmirrors%2fcygwin/release/pcre/libpcre0/libpcre0-
7.2-1.tar.bz2
2007/09/10 22:25:03 Installing file://C:\Documents <file:///C:/Documents>and
Settings\Administrator\Desktop\DELETE/http%3a%2f%2fwww.centervenus.com%2fmirrors%2fcygwin/release/readline/libreadline6/libreadline6-
5.2.7-9.tar.bz2
2007/09/10 22:25:03 Installing file://C:\Documents <file:///C:/Documents>and
Settings\Administrator\Desktop\DELETE/http%3a%2f%2fwww.centervenus.com%2fmirrors%2fcygwin/release/login/login-
1.9-7.tar.bz2
2007/09/10 22:25:03 Installing file://C:\Documents <file:///C:/Documents>and
Settings\Administrator\Desktop\DELETE/http%3a%2f%2fwww.centervenus.com%2fmirrors%2fcygwin/release/man/man-
1.6e-1.tar.bz2
2007/09/10 22:25:04 Installing file://C:\Documents <file:///C:/Documents>and
Settings\Administrator\Desktop\DELETE/http%3a%2f%2fwww.centervenus.com%2fmirrors%2fcygwin/release/mktemp/mktemp-
1.5-4.tar.bz2
2007/09/10 22:25:04 Installing file://C:\Documents <file:///C:/Documents>and
Settings\Administrator\Desktop\DELETE/http%3a%2f%2fwww.centervenus.com%2fmirrors%2fcygwin/release/rebase/rebase-
2.4.3-1.tar.bz2
2007/09/10 22:25:04 Installing file://C:\Documents <file:///C:/Documents>and
Settings\Administrator\Desktop\DELETE/http%3a%2f%2fwww.centervenus.com%2fmirrors%2fcygwin/release/run/run-
1.1.10-1.tar.bz2
2007/09/10 22:25:05 Installing file://C:\Documents <file:///C:/Documents>and
Settings\Administrator\Desktop\DELETE/http%3a%2f%2fwww.centervenus.com%2fmirrors%2fcygwin/release/sed/sed-
4.1.5-2.tar.bz2
2007/09/10 22:25:05 Installing file://C:\Documents <file:///C:/Documents>and
Settings\Administrator\Desktop\DELETE/http%3a%2f%2fwww.centervenus.com%2fmirrors%2fcygwin/release/tar/tar-
1.18-2.tar.bz2
2007/09/10 22:25:07 Installing file://C:\Documents <file:///C:/Documents>and
Settings\Administrator\Desktop\DELETE/http%3a%2f%2fwww.centervenus.com%2fmirrors%2fcygwin/release/termcap/termcap-
20050421-1.tar.bz2
2007/09/10 22:25:07 Installing file://C:\Documents <file:///C:/Documents>and
Settings\Administrator\Desktop\DELETE/http%3a%2f%2fwww.centervenus.com%2fmirrors%2fcygwin/release/terminfo/terminfo-
5.5_20061104-1.tar.bz2
2007/09/10 22:25:24 Installing file://C:\Documents <file:///C:/Documents>and
Settings\Administrator\Desktop\DELETE/http%3a%2f%2fwww.centervenus.com%2fmirrors%2fcygwin/release/texinfo/texinfo-
4.8a-1.tar.bz2
2007/09/10 22:25:25 Installing file://C:\Documents <file:///C:/Documents>and
Settings\Administrator\Desktop\DELETE/http%3a%2f%2fwww.centervenus.com%2fmirrors%2fcygwin/release/which/which-
1.7-1.tar.bz2
2007/09/10 22:25:26 Installing file://C:\Documents <file:///C:/Documents>and
Settings\Administrator\Desktop\DELETE/http%3a%2f%2fwww.centervenus.com%2fmirrors%2fcygwin/release/_update-info-dir/_update-
info-dir-00544-1.tar.bz2
2007/09/10 22:25:26 Visited: 36 nodes out of 47.
2007/09/10 22:25:26 Dependency ordered install:
2007/09/10 22:25:26 texinfo
2007/09/10 22:25:26 _update-info-dir
2007/09/10 22:25:26 libreadline6
2007/09/10 22:25:26 libintl8
2007/09/10 22:25:26 bash
2007/09/10 22:25:26 base-passwd
2007/09/10 22:25:26 libiconv2
2007/09/10 22:25:26 libintl2
2007/09/10 22:25:26 cygwin
2007/09/10 22:25:26 libintl3
2007/09/10 22:25:26 alternatives
2007/09/10 22:25:26 ash
2007/09/10 22:25:26 crypt
2007/09/10 22:25:26 coreutils
2007/09/10 22:25:26 mktemp
2007/09/10 22:25:26 findutils
2007/09/10 22:25:26 sed
2007/09/10 22:25:26 base-files
2007/09/10 22:25:26 bzip2
2007/09/10 22:25:26 cygutils
2007/09/10 22:25:26 gawk
2007/09/10 22:25:26 groff
2007/09/10 22:25:26 gzip
2007/09/10 22:25:26 termcap
2007/09/10 22:25:26 libpcre0
2007/09/10 22:25:26 less
2007/09/10 22:25:26 man
2007/09/10 22:25:26 cygwin-doc
2007/09/10 22:25:26 editrights
2007/09/10 22:25:26 grep
2007/09/10 22:25:26 login
2007/09/10 22:25:26 rebase
2007/09/10 22:25:26 run
2007/09/10 22:25:26 tar
2007/09/10 22:25:26 terminfo
2007/09/10 22:25:26 which
2007/09/10 22:25:26 running: C:\Cygwin\\bin\bash.exe -c
/etc/postinstall/update-info-dir.sh
2007/09/10 22:25:26 abnormal exit: exit code=-1073741515
2007/09/10 22:25:26 running: C:\Cygwin\\bin\bash.exe -c
/etc/postinstall/00bash.sh
2007/09/10 22:25:26 abnormal exit: exit code=-1073741515
2007/09/10 22:25:26 running: C:\Cygwin\\bin\bash.exe -c
/etc/postinstall/passwd-grp.sh
2007/09/10 22:25:26 abnormal exit: exit code=-1073741515
2007/09/10 22:25:26 running: C:\Cygwin\\bin\bash.exe -c
/etc/postinstall/00ash.sh
2007/09/10 22:25:26 abnormal exit: exit code=-1073741515
2007/09/10 22:25:26 running: C:\Cygwin\\bin\bash.exe -c
/etc/postinstall/coreutils.sh
2007/09/10 22:25:26 abnormal exit: exit code=-1073741515
2007/09/10 22:25:26 running: C:\Cygwin\\bin\bash.exe -c
/etc/postinstall/findutils.sh
2007/09/10 22:25:26 abnormal exit: exit code=-1073741515
2007/09/10 22:25:26 running: C:\Cygwin\\bin\bash.exe -c
/etc/postinstall/base-files-mketc.sh
2007/09/10 22:25:26 abnormal exit: exit code=-1073741515
2007/09/10 22:25:26 running: C:\Cygwin\\bin\bash.exe -c
/etc/postinstall/base-files-profile.sh
2007/09/10 22:25:26 abnormal exit: exit code=-1073741515
2007/09/10 22:25:26 running: C:\Cygwin\\bin\bash.exe -c
/etc/postinstall/bzip2.sh
2007/09/10 22:25:26 abnormal exit: exit code=-1073741515
2007/09/10 22:25:26 running: C:\Cygwin\\bin\bash.exe -c
/etc/postinstall/man.sh
2007/09/10 22:25:26 abnormal exit: exit code=-1073741515
2007/09/10 22:25:26 running: C:\Cygwin\\bin\bash.exe -c
/etc/postinstall/cygwin-doc.sh
2007/09/10 22:25:26 abnormal exit: exit code=-1073741515
2007/09/10 22:25:26 running: C:\Cygwin\\bin\bash.exe -c
/etc/postinstall/tar.sh
2007/09/10 22:25:26 abnormal exit: exit code=-1073741515
2007/09/10 22:25:26 running: C:\Cygwin\\bin\bash.exe -c
/etc/postinstall/terminfo.sh
2007/09/10 22:25:26 abnormal exit: exit code=-1073741515
2007/09/10 22:26:00 note: Installation Complete
2007/09/10 22:26:00 Ending cygwin install

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