Re: Setup problem (2.889 32-bit)

On Tue, 6 Mar 2018 12:42:33, David Lee wrote: > I tried to perform a clean Cygwin installation and encountered a > problem with package versions. > > Steps > - > > 1. Download setup.exe. > 2. Run it. > 3. At "Cygwin Net Release Setup Program", click next. > 3. Choose "Install From Internet".

Re: Setup problem: no /home/

Matthijs Nescio writes: > I am using Windows 7. During the setup, the install has hung after it > was finished, running some postinstall script for quite some time. It seems you aborted setup or your log files are truncated. Unless you let it finish the postinstall phase, you can't expect Cygwin

Re: Setup problem: no /home/

On 2016-10-01 12:48, Matthijs Nescio wrote: I have the strangest problem. I have been trying to re-install Cygwin a few times, each time with the same result. I have downloaded the latest greatest setup-x86_64.exe. Symptoms list: * There is a C:\cygwin64\home folder, but it is empty. * It takes

Re: setup problem

On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 03:44:12PM -, Dave Korn wrote: > Are you sure you didn't click the ftp.mirror.ac.uk URL by mistake? That one >does work. > >> See: http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html . The last time that sourceware contacted this site to verify its correctness was ~Feb 19 21:43. If there

RE: setup problem

On 20 February 2006 15:25, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 09:37:37PM +, David Monksfield wrote: >> When I run setup and select 'www.mirror.ac.uk' as the download site, setup >> says: "Unable to get setup.ini from >> ". >> I get this too, only without the stray single

Re: setup problem

On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 09:37:37PM +, David Monksfield wrote: >When I run setup and select 'www.mirror.ac.uk' as the download site, setup >says: >"Unable to get setup.ini from >". > >This started happening a few days ago, having previously been fine. > >I can add

RE: setup problem persistent?

> > There was a hint on this list to first install it without the X11 > > stuff. This indeed seems to work partially. > > However, when I install everything except the X11 section, some > > postinstall scripts will complain about missing DLLs. > > > This is not nice. > > Since the recent emerge

Re: setup problem persistent?

Fergus Daly wrote: Since the recent emergence of xorg-related problems I've achieved complete glitchless installations in two stages as (i) "Base" (Default) followed immediately by (ii) the rest (click on Default to change to Install). There's no need to choose anything, worry about

Re: setup problem persistent?

> There was a hint on this list to first install it > without the X11 stuff. This indeed seems to work partially. > However, when I install everything except the X11 section, > some postinstall scripts will complain about missing DLLs. > This is not nice. Since the recent emergence of xorg-relate

Re: setup problem persistent?

On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 04:32:50PM +0100, Harald Vogt wrote: >Hi all, > >When I'm trying to make a full cygwin install on a freshly setup XP >machine (1 GB RAM, 3 GHz), at some point setup.exe will start eating >more and more system resources and get finally killed. > >The point where this usuall

Re: Setup problem: incomplete nonexistent package

Here's an executive summary: it's a mystery. It just started working. In slightly more detail, rsync from another site did replace the TeXmacs package. But re-running setup still failed on TeXmacs. Our local mirror is shared via Samba (v 2.2something). Some hours later, with no extra rsyncs (i

Re: Setup problem: incomplete nonexistent package

On 2 Sep, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, luke.kendall wrote: > > > We have a local cygwin mirror (of kernels.org). Recently, setup fails > > with the error that the package ssmtp-2.60.9-2 is incomplete. > > > > But we don't have that package in our mirror, and I don't have tha

Re: Setup problem: incomplete nonexistent package

On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, luke.kendall wrote: > We have a local cygwin mirror (of kernels.org). Recently, setup fails > with the error that the package ssmtp-2.60.9-2 is incomplete. > > But we don't have that package in our mirror, and I don't have that > package installed, as far as I can tell. So wh

Re: Setup problem: couldn't install gcc-mingw-core/g++/java

to reboot from SETUP.EXE). Regards, Alexey - Original Message - From: "Igor Pechtchanski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Alexei Lioubimov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 5:12 PM Subject: Re: Setup problem: c

Re: Setup problem: couldn't install gcc-mingw-core/g++/java

to reboot from SETUP.EXE). Regards, Alexey - Original Message - From: "Igor Pechtchanski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Alexei Lioubimov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 5:12 PM Subject: Re: Setup problem: c

Re: Setup problem: couldn't install gcc-mingw-core/g++/java

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Alexei Lioubimov wrote: > Hello, > The problem is, that suddenly I've found out that I couldn't use > "-mno-cygwin" option. I'm getting errors saying that there is no `cc1' and > so on. 'cygcheck -c' says that everything is Ok with gcc-mingw-* packages, > but when I looked ins

Re: setup problem: only ash comes as /bin/sh

On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 23:27, S.L. wrote: > >From a user point of view, I would create a 'Shells' subcategory for 'Base'. > And an intermediate step for setup to manage the /bin/sh issue (when the > user chooses more than one shell). Nope. ash is part of base. It's a required component for the c

Re: setup problem: only ash comes as /bin/sh

[...] > > scripts, since the only shell I install is bash, and the only /bin/sh > installed by > > setup is ash. > > Could this be fixed somehow? > > How exactly? Ash is a part of the 'Base' category, a minimal Cygwin > installation. This means that postinstall scripts et al expect a 'Base' [...]

Re: setup problem: only ash comes as /bin/sh

> I reinstalled my w9x box and cygwin also. > As the subject mentions, this is already annoying: every time I reinstall > cygwin, I must remember to set a /bin/sh, and re-run all /etc/postinstall > scripts, since the only shell I install is bash, and the only /bin/sh installed by > setup is ash. >

Re: Setup problem: Download Incomplete

RM> ... but I haven't seen it mentioned in the list so far and it is RM> possible you don't know... Please forgive this bit of noise, I'd failed to read 4 digests worth of messages... Doh! -- Robert -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http

Re: setup problem(s)

This will be a "me too message," I'm afraid. I still have an older version (Setup2.194.2.26) which works to download and/or install most stuff, but it won't download some of the newer packages that I want, and it's having big problems with a lot of the X-Free86 programs- I can't get XFree86-fenc