On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 18:53, Gerry Reno <gr...@verizon.net> wrote: > On 02/10/2011 09:00 PM, Gerry Reno wrote: >> On 02/10/2011 08:16 PM, Gerry Reno wrote: >> >>> After having so much difficulty post-upgrade Cygwin 1.5 to 1.7 on my >>> Windows 2003 R2 WOW64 machine: >>> >>> I prepared a fresh installation of Windows 2003 R2 WOW64 and >>> installed Cygwin 1.7.7 using setup.exe from the cygwin.com site. >>> >>> Conclusion: A fresh install of Cygwin 1.7.7 FAILS on Windows 2003 R2 >>> WOW64. >>> >>> >>> There are numerous postinstall failures: >>> >>> Package: base-cygwin >>> 000-cygwin-post-install.sh exit code 128 >>> Package: coreutils >>> coreutils.sh exit code 1 >>> Package: terminfo >>> terminfo.sh exit code 35584 >>> Package: bash >>> bash.sh exit code 128 >>> Package: terminfo0 >>> terminfo0.sh exit code 128 >>> Package: base-files >>> base-files-profile.sh exit code 128 >>> base-files-mketc.sh exit code 128 >>> Package: man >>> man.sh exit code 128 >>> >>> >>> >>> The bash login shell fails: >>> >>> bash-4.1# echo $PATH >>> >>> /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wb >>> em:/cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft SQL Server/90/Tools/binn/ >>> bash-4.1# >>> >>> >>> No PATH is set. >>> >>> bash-4.1# /usr/bin/cat /etc/profile >>> /usr/bin/cat: /etc/profile: No such file or directory >>> >>> >>> No system-wide profile. >>> >>> >>> I've attached a cygcheck.out. >>> >>> Please let me know if you would like anymore information. I'll keep >>> this machine around as is for a few days if it will help. >>> >>> >>> Regards, >>> Gerry >>> >>> >>> >> I went and cleared out everything and started over but first moving the >> DEP setting from All to Windows-only. >> >> This time the Cygwin installation completed without postinstall errors >> and the bash login shell is working. >> >> What I think would be good is for Cygwin setup to detect and warn >> about the DEP setting on Windows 2003 / Windows 2008. >> >> >> What happened in my case was that I originally had a good installation >> of Cygwin 1.5 on Windows 2003 that apparently worked fine with DEP in >> the restrictive setting. It was only after I upgraded it to Cygwin 1.7 >> that problems appeared. >> >> I'm now going to try a Cygwin reinstall on my original machine after >> changing the DEP setting to see if the 1.7 upgrade installation can be >> fixed. >> >> >> > > I changed the DEP setting but in trying to reinstall the original > upgraded installation, it gets into a vicious loop of: > > Package file libgcc1 has a corrupt local copy, please remove and retry. > And > Package file libssp0 has a corrupt local copy, please remove and retry. > And > Package file libstc++6 has a corrupt local copy, please remove and > retry. > > > I seem to be able to fix one at a time but not all. Still trying. > > ... > > Ok, I finally got it all to reinstall but the installation is still > broken. Same problems. Failed postinstalls, "Bad address" errors and > no bash login shell. > > Anyone have any thoughts as to how to fix this installation? The > fallback of course is to wipe Cygwin off and do a complete new > installation but I'm trying to avoid that if possible with all the > configs I've made. > > > Regards, > Gerry
Wipe Windoze off the disk and use Linux or *BSD or even Solaris :-) That would definitely solve the problem :-) No, I don't have an answer to help, but I thought I would try add some levity. Good luck, Ken Wolcott -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
