Re: 1.5.18-1: cannot start executables (except cygcheck.exe) on windows server 2003 web edition

2005-11-25 Thread Eduard Witteveen
Eric Blake wrote: Can you look at /var/log/setup.log.full and see if there is anything in there that is relevant to why the postinstall script failed? I'm suspecting a permissions problem. All the postinstall script attempts to do is "cp /bin/bash.exe /bin/sh.exe", once it determines that /bin/

Re: 1.5.18-1: cannot start executables (except cygcheck.exe) on windows server 2003 web edition

2005-11-25 Thread Eduard Witteveen
Eric Blake wrote: Not Found: sh Somehow, your installation of bash has failed. Rerun setup.exe, and select bash for reinstallation, so that the postinstall script will run again and create /bin/sh. Without a working /bin/sh, many cygwin programs have extreme difficulty. When i perform a reinst

Re: 1.5.18-1: cannot start executables (except cygcheck.exe) on windows server 2003 web edition

2005-11-16 Thread Eduard Witteveen
Eric Blake wrote: I was happy to see cygcheck.exe working: That's because cygcheck is a native windows program that works even if the rest of cygwin does not. Please ATTACH, not send inline, the output of cygcheck -svr (your -cvr output is not as helpful), per the directions here: Thank for po

Re: 1.5.18-1: cannot start executables (except cygcheck.exe) on windows server 2003 web edition

2005-11-16 Thread Eduard Witteveen
Fabrizio Salvatore wrote: I'm not sure I understand your problem, but in any event here's what I do (running cygwin on a WindowsXP laptop) to start the xterm and then a session on a different machine: First of all, thank you for the quick reply. Mine points to C:\cygwin\cygwin.bat, since i don

1.5.18-1: cannot start executables (except cygcheck.exe) on windows server 2003 web edition

2005-11-16 Thread Eduard Witteveen
When i double click on the Cygwin shortcut on the desktop a new window pops up and after 2 seconds it hides again. Since i want to use cygwin, i run start > "cmd" and i tried to lauch bash from the console: C:\cygwin\bin>bash.exe --version C:\cygwin\bin>bash.exe C:\cygwin\bin> I also tried a