No go after update to 1.7.1

Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com
Tue Dec 29 16:47:00 GMT 2009


On 12/29/2009 10:57 AM, Bernd Bartmann wrote:
> Obviously my last post didn't make it through the mailing list
> probably because of a .csv attachment. So, here's the original text
> again:
>
> Setting the PATH to C:\cygwin\bin only doesn't help either. So I tried
> procmon to monitor what bash is actually doing. As it seems it stops
> because it can't find /etc/passwd and /etc/fstab which indeed are
> missing. Shouldn't they have been created during the setup process?
> Also, /etc does not contain any files just some sub-directories:
>
> alternatives
> defaults
> fonts
> postinstall
> preremove
> profile.d
> setup
> terminfo
>

So this means your installation isn't proceeding properly.  Could be failed
postinstall scripts, perhaps as a result of bash not being able to run.
You can check out '/var/log/setup.log.full' for some insights.  Also, I think
it's time to start considering the possible effects of BLODA
<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#BLODA>.

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