No etc/passwd (was) Re: (everything!) command not found

[DY]

It definitely made a difference.  I never had to do it before, but when 
I did it this time I
could suddenly do ls and just about everything else inside of cygwin, 
whereas I couldn't
before I set those things in Windows. 

Here's what I can tell you.  I was installing cygwin on a clean machine 
- I just bought it.
It most definitely didn't have cygwin on it at all.  I hadn't copied 
anything over from my
old hard drive.

Also, what I've done at this point was remove cygwin completely (afaik) 
by doing umount,
then removing the cygwin directory, then going into the registry and 
removing cygwin and
something else that had to do with cygwin (I'm sorry - I don't remember 
exactly what it
was).  I then reinstalled cygwin.  After reinstalling cygwin, I still 
didn't have etc/passwd
or etc/group.  So I went back to the install process, looked in base, 
chose to reinstall
base_passwd (fyi, everything in base said "keep"), ran the setup again, 
and then I got
etc/passwd and etc/group.  Then, being afraid that something else hadn't 
installed, I
reinstalled everything in base. 

Here is the setup.log.full as it stands now. I'm trying to run cygcheck 
as specified in the
problems page, but I think it's getting stuck in an infinte loop (or is 
it supposed to print out
what looks like the same thing again and again and again for over 5 
minutes? - a lot of
...\Wow6432Node\Wow6432Node\Wow6432Node\... , and the longer it runs, 
the more
\Wow6432Node\...'s there are before it gets to a bottom line of
Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\Program Options).
Is it at all possible that there's something funny about where I'm 
running setup.exe from? 

-Debra



Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> On 8/16/2009 12:35 PM, Mark J. Reed wrote:
>> On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 11:30 AM, DY wrote:
>>> In case anyone else ever needs this, if you install cygwin, then get 
>>> command
>>> not found for everything, you need to:[set CYGWIN_HOME and add
>>> %CYGWIN_HOME%\bin to PATH].
>>
>> That's quite strange; neither of those should be necessary.   I have
>> no CYGWIN_HOME set, and my Cygwin bin dir is not in my Windows PATH.
>> (The latter is handy if you want to run Cygwin commands from the
>> Windows shell, of course).
>
> Thank you Mark for making this point.  Just in case there's any 
> confusion,
> the CYGWIN_HOME environment variable is not used by Cygwin.  It does
> not need to be set for proper operation.  And Cygwin's path only needs 
> to be
> in the Windows environment if you want/need to run Cygwin commands from
> the Windows command prompt shell (though this is often awfully 
> convenient).
> So Mark is spot on with his comments here.
>
> Clearly the source of the issues with this installation is wrapped up 
> in the
> postinstall scripts.  Why they failed to run isn't clear based on the 
> information
> given so far.  It would still be nice to see the 'cygcheck' output 
> recommended
> by <http://cygwin.com/problems.html> and it might be particularly 
> useful to
> see the original 'setup.log.full', though I expect we'd have to settle 
> for a
> recent or current version now...
>
> There's been a good chunk of useful suggestions generated in this 
> thread so
> far Debra.  Clearly some you have looked at but some seems to have 
> slipped
> through the cracks.  It might prove useful to you if you reviewed the 
> whole
> thread again.  Based on your first email message, I did not get the 
> impression
> that you moved any of the data from your XP machine to Vista but if 
> you did
> do this (via clone/ghost or other mechanism that preserves ownership
> of the data), you may have permissions problems if you're overwriting 
> the Cygwin
> installation you had on XP.  If this describes your environment, I'd 
> recommend
> removing your Cygwin installation and reinstalling.  You can copy over 
> what you
> want of the old (and adjust permissions and ownerships) once Cygwin is in
> place.
>
> -- 
> Larry
>
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