Windows 7
Brian Wilson
wilson@ds.net
Sat Jan 30 14:36:00 GMT 2010
I had a similar problem upgrading on XP. I think my issue was related to a
heap space allocation issue which prevents the shell from running during the
installation. I found that failed installations left shell processes running,
but not doing anything useful.
Check the documentation as I believe there is a fix for the heap space issue.
In my case, I killed these useless shells and that allowed the Cygwin bash
shell to start up with out heap space errors. I cleaned out the
/etc/postinstall directory by removing any shell scripts (rm *.sh) and
rerunning the setup. Cygwin installed okay for me after that.
Hope this helps.
Sincerely,
Brian S. Wilson
---------- Original Message -----------
From: Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Sent: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:50:53 -0500
Subject: Re: Windows 7
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Dave Korn
> <dave.korn.cygwin@........ wrote:
> > On 28/01/2010 06:28, Hirokazu Miura wrote:
> >> I am having problems in installing cygwin on a HP Pavilion 64bits
platform.
> >
> > Â HP tend to ship their boxes with a ton of irritating and semi-useless
stuff
> > preinstalled. Â Check if anything you have on the box is listed on BLODA:
> >
> > http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda
> >
> > Â Â cheers,
> > Â Â Â DaveK
> >
> Hello!
> I agree!
> This Dell Inspirion 1545 arrived wearing a heck of a lot of useless
> items, including their chosen Anti-virus programs.
>
> I strongly suggest you go through that list of items on the FAQ, and
> see if anything on your system matches it.
>
> Following it, then simply choose the steps that work for you. The one
> Eliot suggests in fact is how I normally proceed in point of fact.
>
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