Cygwin 1.7.12-1: exit code 1 during post-install regarding dirs in /dev

[Andre Loker]

Am 04.04.2012 13:23, schrieb marco atzeri:
>
> On 4/4/2012 12:24 PM, Andre Loker wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm trying to do a fresh installation of Cygwin 1.7.12-1 on a new
>> Windows Server 2008 R2 machine. At the end of the installation I get a
>> warning that bash.sh returned exit code 1.
>>
>> The related parts of the log:
>> <<start>>
>> 2012/04/04 11:53:05 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile
>> /etc/postinstall/bash.sh
>> ln: cannot remove `/dev/stdin': No such file or directory
>> ln: cannot remove `/dev/stdout': No such file or directory
>> ln: cannot remove `/dev/stderr': No such file or directory
>> ln: cannot remove `/dev/fd': No such file or directory
>> 2012/04/04 11:53:05 abnormal exit: exit code=1
>> <<end>>
>>
>> Possibly related: I get errors a bit earlier in the log files:
>>
>> << start>>
>> 2012/04/04 11:53:01 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile
>> /etc/postinstall/000-cygwin-post-install.sh
>> mkdir: cannot create directory `/dev/shm': No such file or directory
>>
>> Creating /dev/shm directory failed.
>> POSIX semaphores and POSIX shared memory will not work
>>
>> mkdir: cannot create directory `/dev/mqueue': No such file or directory
>>
>> Creating /dev/mqueue directory failed.
>> POSIX message queues will not work
>> <<end>>
>>
>> I *suppose* the issue is related to this change in 1.7.12:
>> "- Cygwin now automatically populates the /dev directory with all
>> existing POSIX devices."
>>
>> Do I have to take any actions regarding those issues? If so, which?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Andre Loker
>>
>
> what is the output of "ls -l /dev" ?

$ ls -l /dev
total 0
crw-rw-rw- 1 Administrator None  13, 254 Dec  1  2006 clipboard
crw-rw-rw- 1 Administrator None  14,   3 Apr  4 13:38 dsp
crw--w--w- 1 Administrator None   1,   7 Apr  4 13:38 full
crw-rw-rw- 1 Administrator None   1,   2 Apr  4 13:38 kmem
crw------- 1 Administrator None   1,  11 Apr  4 13:38 kmsg
c--------- 1 Administrator None   1,   1 Apr  4 13:38 mem
crw-rw-rw- 1 Administrator None   1,   3 Apr  4 13:38 null
c--------- 1 Administrator None   1,   4 Apr  4 13:38 port
crw-rw-rw- 1 Administrator None   5,   2 Apr  4 13:38 ptmx
crw--w---- 1 Administrator None 136,   0 Apr  4 13:38 pty0
crw-rw-rw- 1 Administrator None   1,   8 Apr  4 13:38 random
brw-rw-rw- 2 Administrator None  11,   0 Apr  4  2012 scd0
brw-rw-rw- 1 Administrator None   8,   0 Apr  4  2012 sda
brw-rw-rw- 1 Administrator None   8,   1 Apr  4  2012 sda1
brw-rw-rw- 2 Administrator None  11,   0 Apr  4  2012 sr0
crw-rw-rw- 1 Administrator None   5,   0 Apr  4 13:38 tty
crw-rw-rw- 1 Administrator None   1,   9 Apr  4 13:38 urandom
crw-rw-rw- 1 Administrator None  13, 255 Apr  4 13:38 windows
crw-rw-rw- 1 Administrator None   1,   5 Apr  4 13:38 zero



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