Cygwin windows 2000 self-destruct

[Lee S Parsons]

I wanted to build the gnu compilers on my cygwin installation on my 
windows 2000 desktop.  This is cygwin version 2.573.2.2, which was 
running fine until this afternoon.

When I tried to install the gnu compiler package, I received an error 
from windows in setup, that caused windows to kill the setup and 
(allegedly) write a log file (where?).  I thought perhaps it was a 
permissions error, so I tried it as administrator, which also did not 
work; same error.  I suspected perhaps anti-virus or anti-spyware was to 
blame, so I killed them both as administrator and tried again, still no 
luck.

I then downloaded the latest setup and tried it (both anti-virus an 
anti-spyware turned off); that did not work either (same error).  I then 
gave up and rebooted, and life got dramatically worse.

I can no longer start XWin.  If I double click the icon windows brings 
up a message that it is looking for "startxwin.bat", which is odd 
because it was there before I started this.  I could not find it, 
either.  I did find an old "startxwin.bat", but it does not work.  
Attempting to run it gives a fatal error.

How do I regain my cygwin functionality?  I would like to be able to 
setup the gnu compiler collection if possible, but at this point just 
getting XWin back would be progress.

thank you
Lee Parsons


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