setup.exe a mystery -SOLVED

Tom Axehult tom.axehult@glocalnet.net
Fri Oct 23 15:02:00 GMT 2015


Following your suggestion solved my problems

On 22.10.2015 14:37, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 10/22/2015 6:28 AM, Tom Axehult wrote:
>> I lost bash weeks ago and hence cygwin which I used to start from 
>> Cywin.bat as
>> administrator, by the well known
>> bash --login -i
>> For reasons beyond me, I can run Xemacs and reach bash functionality 
>> from
>> (Tools/shell command) and thus produce cygcheck.
>> Using setup for updating Cygwin a warning is issued:
>> Package: _/_update-info-dir
>>      update-info-dir.sh exit code -6
>> Package: _/Unknown package
>>      cygutils.sh exit code -6
>>      dejavu-fonts.sh exit code -6
....
....

>
> Without bash, the postinstall scripts can't run.
>
>> In the attached cygcheck the setup failure turns up as 'incomplete' 
>> installations.
>
> I suggest that you start by running setup and reinstalling all the 
> packages that show as incomplete.  Be sure to use the latest setup; a 
> new version was just made available a few days ago.
>
> Ken
>
> -- 
>

Thank you so much, Ken
Tom


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