-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Srinivasan Rajesh on 4/13/2006 2:19 AM: > I have a serious problem on installing Cygwin. > The installation in the root folder "C:/cygwin/", results in no "/home" > directory.
/home is created on the first successful login. So now we need to figure out why your login was not successful. > And when I try to click "Cygwin Bash Shell" from start menu, no action > is happening. When this happens, something to try is open a cmd.com window, change directories to where the binaries were installed (in your case, c:\cygwin\bin), then run '.\bash --login -i' and see if any error messages appear. You can also run '.\bash -livx' for a verbose login, to see which, if any, command being run during the login process is a culprit. > I tried to install many times but nothing helps me. What could be the > problem. > Earlier when I tried to open cygwin, it opens an editor "PHPEdit" with > the following content. Correct, that is the default .bat file installed by setup.exe. Something else you should do is look at these directions: > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html In particular, the part about including the output of 'cygcheck -svr' as a text attachment will help us learn more about your setup, and perhaps make it easier to diagnose the problem. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEPkoT84KuGfSFAYARAugYAJ9mUbss3CleUoFyUft4DZeDRlc5JwCeP6N0 v6RZEkxsMaS+NoampJK4hs0= =Pl/Y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/