New install setup fails to create start menu bash link

I have a new Windows 11 machine. I ran setup V2.925 with command-line options for my default set of packages, clicked through installation, and specified start menu but no desktop icon. Install seemed to go smoothly, but while there was a start menu folder for Cygwin with documentation, there w

Re: 64 bit setup fails to run on WIndows 10

On 2019-03-11 15:39, Adrian Blakey wrote: > Any ideas why the 64 bit setup program fails to run at all on my corporate > Windows 10 laptop, whereas the 32 setup runs fine? > > The symptoms are whenever I run it either from the finder or from the > command line it does not initialize or produce any

Re: 64 bit setup fails to run on WIndows 10

Adrian Blakey writes: > Any ideas why the 64 bit setup program fails to run at all on my corporate > Windows 10 laptop, whereas the 32 setup runs fine? One is whitelisted in whatever "protection" solution you are forced to use and the other not. Ask whoever is the vendor or your support to check

64 bit setup fails to run on WIndows 10

Any ideas why the 64 bit setup program fails to run at all on my corporate Windows 10 laptop, whereas the 32 setup runs fine? The symptoms are whenever I run it either from the finder or from the command line it does not initialize or produce any output. The machine is modern Lenovo Thinkpad that

Re: ssh setup fails on cygwin

On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:36, prakash babu wrote: > I know that cygwin 1.5 is no longer supported but since my application > requires ssh to be setup and  extensively uses chmod on MS-DOS paths I want > atleast the the cygwin 1.5 install and ssh setup done successfully. > Why don't you use the c

ssh setup fails on cygwin

I know that cygwin 1.5 is no longer supported but since my application requires ssh to be setup and extensively uses chmod on MS-DOS paths I want atleast the the cygwin 1.5 install and ssh setup done successfully. Hence I installed cygwin 1.5 on three windows XP machines using setup-legacy.exe

Setup fails with 1.7 upgrade attempt -- CLOSING OUT.

> I can find no direct information on this problem anywhere, so now > I'm writing you. My computer is an Intel Pentium(R) 4, 3.4 Ghz and > 1GB RAM. The OS is MS Windows XP 2002, SP2. I've been happily > running Cygwin for 8 years, and it looks like it's time to upgrade > to Cygwin 1.7. > I su

Re: Setup fails with 1.7 upgrade attempt

On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 9:39 PM, wrote: > $ wget -S http://www.tug.org > $ Try it with wget -d -S http://www.tug.org (if cygcheck reports no missing DLL) -- Life is complex, with real and imaginary parts -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://

Re: Setup fails with 1.7 upgrade attempt

On 01/03/2010 20:39, chethc...@oplink wrote: [ missed one thing in my earlier response: ] > Does setup.exe use wget? Nope, that was the point; try and factor setup.exe out of the equation and see if your problem is with that or in the network. cheers, DaveK -- Problem reports:

Re: Setup fails with 1.7 upgrade attempt

On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 02:39:31PM -0600, chethc...@oplink.net wrote: >> As to the main problem, hmmm. Maybe if you could run it under GDB >> we might get a better look at the error. > >You mean run setup.exe under GDB? Will try it shortly, but: > >> I was going to suggest you try a snapshot of s

Re: Setup fails with 1.7 upgrade attempt

On 01/03/2010 20:39, chethc...@oplink wrote: > First, using my browser to get to http://cygwin.com/mirrors.lst, I get > a "not found on this server" error. I think this file might be > elsewhere. Absolutely not, no way. You have a very serious network problem. Probably a bad proxy server. E

Re: Setup fails with 1.7 upgrade attempt

> As to the main problem, hmmm. Maybe if you could run it under GDB > we might get a better look at the error. You mean run setup.exe under GDB? Will try it shortly, but: > I was going to suggest you try a snapshot of setup.exe with debug > information, but something appears to be wrong with th

Re: Setup fails with 1.7 upgrade attempt

On 01/03/2010 18:18, chethc...@oplink wrote: > One irritating note: There is no way I can figure out to get > setup.exe tell me what version of Cygwin it thinks it's installing. > How can I verify that the current setup program on the Cygwin web page > is for 1.7 and not 1.5? If it's "setup.ex

Setup fails with 1.7 upgrade attempt

I can find no direct information on this problem anywhere, so now I'm writing you. My computer is an Intel Pentium(R) 4, 3.4 Ghz and 1GB RAM. The OS is MS Windows XP 2002, SP2. I've been happily running Cygwin for 8 years, and it looks like it's time to upgrade to Cygwin 1.7. I suddenly cannot

Re: 1.7: setup fails to complete download; all later attempts fail

Lee D. Rothstein wrote: > Setup failed to complete the download on an attempt to update. > Now, the same thing happens every try. > It doesn't fail at the same point each time. It doesn't fail at > the same point using the same source server. > > Sometimes it will get 98% through and then fail.

Re: 1.7: setup fails to complete download; all later attempts fail

Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 08/30/2009 11:15 PM, Lee D. Rothstein wrote: >> Setup failed to complete the download on an attempt to update. >> Yet, the install continued until that failed as well. > What do you mean by this? Define "failed". Clarify how "setup failed... > yet, the install

Re: 1.7: setup fails to complete download; all later attempts fail

On 08/30/2009 11:15 PM, Lee D. Rothstein wrote: Setup failed to complete the download on an attempt to update. Yet, the install continued until that failed as well. What do you mean by this? Define "failed". Clarify how "setup failed... yet, the install continued until that failed as well."

1.7: setup fails to complete download; all later attempts fail

Setup failed to complete the download on an attempt to update. Yet, the install continued until that failed as well. Now, the same thing happens every try. Even if I: * Redownload the lastest setup * Shut off my AV program (Kaspersky) * Change servers * Delete all prior remnants of downloaded a

Setup fails to write help output to logfile [was RE: 1.5.12 ssh hangs on some machines when stdout has content]

Rolf Campbell wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >> As I've said before, . >> This result from the search I suggested looks promising, if only to get >> the setup options: . See >> also /var/log/setup.l

Re: Setup fails!

Kern wrote: in my opition you should copy the cygwin1.dll to the winnt/system32 directory.Ignore whatever the installer say there is an old dll in XXX path Errr.. NO! If you want to use the cygwin1.dll that's a part of cygwin, add cygwin\bin to your path (drive letter omitted here). Then you

Re: Setup fails!

Ugh, top-posting... Reformatted. On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Kern wrote: > 2005/10/13, Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: . Thanks. > > > > > > "The procedure entry point getline could not be located in the > > > dynamic link library cygwin1.dll!" > > > > What

Re: Setup fails!

in my opition you should copy the cygwin1.dll to the winnt/system32 directory.Ignore whatever the installer say there is an old dll in XXX path 2005/10/13, Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > "The procedure entry point getline could not be located in the dynamic link > > library cygwin1.dll!"

Re: Setup fails!

> > "The procedure entry point getline could not be located in the dynamic link > library cygwin1.dll!" What was the title of the popup box (in other words, which app reported this message)? getline() is not present in 1.5.18, only in snapshots. Did you, perchance, install coreutils-5.90-2, wh

Re: Setup fails!

On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 04:50:47PM +, Roland Bengtsson wrote: >I tried to download the latest release of cygwin as I want to use lxr for >Linux. > >I run setup. choose a mirror and select to install the Devel category. >The downloading seems to go fine but after a while a dialog is shown: > >"

Re: Setup fails!

Roland Bengtsson wrote: I tried to download the latest release of cygwin as I want to use lxr for Linux. I run setup. choose a mirror and select to install the Devel category. The downloading seems to go fine but after a while a dialog is shown: "The procedure entry point getline could not be l

Setup fails!

I tried to download the latest release of cygwin as I want to use lxr for Linux. I run setup. choose a mirror and select to install the Devel category. The downloading seems to go fine but after a while a dialog is shown: "The procedure entry point getline could not be located in the dynamic link

RE: Cygwin Setup Fails at 43%.

You might want to have checked before you posted as I posted the same issue just 7 hours before. Refer to the following posts that are associated to it: RE: error during install Thanks Robert -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin

Cygwin Setup Fails at 43%.

I'm attempting to install Cygwin, but setup.exe always fails at 43%, while installing mhash-0.9.1-1 (/usr/share/mc/syntax/xml.syntax). I've search the web, cygwin mailing list archives, cygwin documentation, etc. but have failed to find the solution. Can anyone help me out please? Thank you. B

running Cygwin setup fails for site refusing request

Since 0600 EST USA yesterday Feb 4 2005 the site www.cygwin.com site has not been responding for me ... therefore cannot get current updates I have seen nothing of this while searching on the web ... was wondering if many other people are having this problem Sorry ... but not sure WHERE to po

Re: What to do when setup fails?

On 11 Nov, Reini Urban replied to: > > I watched in task manager as setup's memory use climbed from 50MB to > > 127MB over a period of a few minutes. When next I looked nothing had > > visibly changed, except task manager reckoned setup was now using only > > 12MB (again climbing steadily u

Re: What to do when setup fails?

Luke Kendall schrieb: On 11 Nov, luke wrote: By the time it had crashed with the above panel, Task Manager was showing setup of using only 10MB of memory. Yet as soon as I clicked on OK for the runtime error, the pages were very quickly handed back to the system and it returned to about 100MB o

RE: What to do when setup fails?

On 11 Nov, To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sounds like the first attempted install, with the insufficient > permissions and the "Mount: command completed successfully" might have > left things in a somehow strange state. I no longer think this. > I'll force a system disc check and reboot a

RE: What to do when setup fails?

On 11 Nov, luke wrote: > By the time it had crashed with the above panel, Task Manager was > showing setup of using only 10MB of memory. Yet as soon as I clicked > on OK for the runtime error, the pages were very quickly handed back to > the system and it returned to about 100MB of memory i

RE: What to do when setup fails?

On 11 Nov, To: Dave Korn wrote: > I'll investigate further, but I think you've cracked my problem. > Thanks, Dave! Certainly, the confusing part was getting an error that stopped setup and which was reported as "mount: the command completed successfully." I've tried again today with Administr

RE: What to do when setup fails?

On 10 Nov, Dave Korn wrote: >Luke, if setup is failing to create that key, you must be trying to > install > for all users while running as a user with inadequate rights, mustn't you? > The > attached patch would tell you what the actual error code was, if you felt > like > rebuilding

RE: What to do when setup fails?

> -Original Message- > From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 10 November 2004 16:10 > Quoting the patch: > > -fatal ("mount"); > + { > + char errbuffer[40]; > +_snprintf (errbuffer, 40, "mount %d", GetLastError ()); > +fatal (errbuffer); > + } > > Umm,

RE: What to do when setup fails?

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Dave Korn wrote: > From mount.cc: > [snip] > fatal ("mount"); > > Luke, if setup is failing to create that key, you must be trying to > install for all users while running as a user with inadequate rights, > mustn't you? The attached patch would tell you what the actual

RE: What to do when setup fails?

> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Max Bowsher > Sent: 10 November 2004 00:37 > To: Luke Kendall; cygwin > Subject: Re: What to do when setup fails? > > Luke Kendall wrote: > > I recently found another system that Cygwin setup failed on

Re: What to do when setup fails?

Luke Kendall wrote: I recently found another system that Cygwin setup failed on every time. I'm installing from a local mirror for which all the checksums are good. It fails due to mount, apparently. A panel titled "Mount" pops up after the download stage, saying: "The operation completed successf

What to do when setup fails?

I recently found another system that Cygwin setup failed on every time. I'm installing from a local mirror for which all the checksums are good. It fails due to mount, apparently. A panel titled "Mount" pops up after the download stage, saying: "The operation completed successfully", and then se

setup fails: mount: operation completed successfully

I started a vanilla install on a Dell C400 laptop, running XP. I chose to install to the C drive. I started installing from a 4-month old local stable snapshot, and cancelled Setup when I realised I'd chosen the old mirror. I started installing again, from our local latest snapshot. Note: both Sta

Re: More on 'setup' fails and breaks pre-existing Cygwin installation: "The Rational Rose Files" & path stuff.

Try running it under strace and see where it's taking it's time. This might take some effort on your part to sift through and interpret the strace output but it will usually point a finger at the culprit. Larry At 02:03 AM 3/25/2004, you wrote: >Dave, > >Well, from the DOS command prompt I tri

Re: More on 'setup' fails and breaks pre-existing Cygwin installation: "The Rational Rose Files" & path stuff.

Dave, Well, from the DOS command prompt I tried: ---snip--- cd C:\cygwin PATH C:\WinNT\system32;C:\WinNT;C:\WinNT\system32\Wbem bash --login -i ---snip--- and I also tried this in my .bashrc (all one line): export PATH="/cygdrive/c/WinNT/system32:/cygdrive/c/WinNT:/cygdrive/c/WinNT/system32/Wbem

RE: More on 'setup' fails and breaks pre-existing Cygwin installation: "The Rational Rose Files"

> From: Dave Korn > > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Christopher M. Balz > > Sent: 23 March 2004 06:39 > > Apparently however, from your comments, it looks as if the > > MKS system makes breaks the Cygwin installation. Is there a > > way (or a place I could look to find out) where I could > > p

RE: More on 'setup' fails and breaks pre-existing Cygwin installation: "The Rational Rose Files"

> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Christopher M. Balz > Sent: 23 March 2004 06:39 > I didn't suspect Rational Rose since I've run Cygwin fine > when it was my previous Cygwin installation and when Rose had > already been installed. > Apparently however, from your

Re: More on 'setup' fails and breaks pre-existing Cygwin installation: "The Rational Rose Files"

I didn't suspect Rational Rose since I've run Cygwin fine when it was my previous Cygwin installation and when Rose had already been installed. Apparently however, from your comments, it looks as if the MKS system makes breaks the Cygwin installation. Is there a way (or a place I could look t

RE: More on 'setup' fails and breaks pre-existing Cygwin installation: now have prompt, but it's ultra-high-response time.

> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski > Sent: 22 March 2004 13:39 > On Sun, 21 Mar 2004, Christopher M. Balz wrote: > > I did run > > > > "c:\cygwin\bin\bash --norc" > > > > After a couple minutes the command prompt gave me: > > > > C:\WINNT\SYSTE

Re: More on 'setup' fails and breaks pre-existing Cygwin installation: now have prompt, but it's ultra-high-response time.

On Sun, 21 Mar 2004, Christopher M. Balz wrote: > Please also see the other e-mail of similar subject title that I just > sent, with 'cygcheck.out' attached. > I did run > > "c:\cygwin\bin\bash --norc" > > > After a couple minutes the command prompt gave me: > > C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32>c:\cygwin\b

Re: More on 'setup' fails and breaks pre-existing Cygwin installation: cygcheck.out attached.

I was able to run 'cygcheck -s -v -r > cygcheck.out' with no problem. 'cygcheck.out' is attached. I do not understand what moving the Cygwin root directory out of the way would entail, but will try if necessary and I know what to do. Please see my other e-mail just sent about the 'bash -norc'.

Re: More on 'setup' fails and breaks pre-existing Cygwin installation: now have prompt, but it's ultra-high-response time.

Please also see the other e-mail of similar subject title that I just sent, with 'cygcheck.out' attached. I did run "c:\cygwin\bin\bash --norc" After a couple minutes the command prompt gave me: C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32>c:\cygwin\bin\bash --norc bash-2.05b$ This command prompt cannot find any

Re: More on 'setup' fails and breaks pre-existing Cygwin installation.

Okay, I don't recall seeing the output of "cygcheck -svr" attached to any of your messages, as requested in . Please *attach* the output rather than including it inline. You should be able to run cygcheck from a CMD prompt. Did you try a clean install by moving yo

Re: More on 'setup' fails and breaks pre-existing Cygwin installation.

The hang itself is indeed a soft hang. I can click out of it using the 'Cancel' button, and then at least sometimes, 'setup' will tell me that installation is complete. Somewhere in these last clicks is where my entire machine was taken down during two of my earlier attempts today. cd c:\c

Re: More on 'setup' fails and breaks pre-existing Cygwin installation.

On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Christopher M. Balz wrote: > Answering Igor's questions . . . > > 'setup' hangs when it dies. The window its in closes without any > problem, though. So it doesn't really crash anything? And this doesn't sound like a hard hang, either -- at least the events are processed no

'setup' fails and breaks pre-existing Cygwin installation.

On Win2K SP 4 up-to-date, I install most packages (including X and tex) and 'setup' hangs with the folllowing message: Running . . . No package /etc/postinstall/post-texmf.sh The progress bar is almost finished at this point (above). The install has broken my Cygwin shell completely

Re: Setup fails on XP Pro : no files in /etc + no permissions in /bin

Milner, Jon (EU-SES) wrote: > Thanks Max. I erased Cygwin and re-installed. Results are detailed below. > > I am installing for all users, logged in as myself 'GBMilneJ'. > I am a member of XP's Administrators group. > (I've installed several other programs, with no problems). > ... > C:\>cacls C:\

RE: Setup fails on XP Pro : no files in /etc + no permissions in /bin

l Message- From: Max Bowsher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 July 2003 18:41 To: Milner, Jon (EU-SES); [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Setup fails on XP Pro : no files in /etc + no permissions in /bin Milner, Jon (EU-SES) wrote: > When I attempt to install Cygwin on my (new) XP Pro machine,

Re: Setup fails on XP Pro : no files in /etc + no permissions in /bin

Milner, Jon (EU-SES) wrote: > When I attempt to install Cygwin on my (new) XP Pro machine, setup appears > to complete okay, and I can launch bash, but something has gone badly wrong > (see listings below). > > Anyone know what I am doing wrong? > (Or what extra information I need to provide to ena

Setup fails on XP Pro : no files in /etc + no permissions in /bin

When I attempt to install Cygwin on my (new) XP Pro machine, setup appears to complete okay, and I can launch bash, but something has gone badly wrong (see listings below). Anyone know what I am doing wrong? (Or what extra information I need to provide to enable a diagnosis). bash-2.05b$ cd /etc

RE: setup fails: "Can't open (null) for reading: No such file"

Download from internet and install from internet share the same cache. Rob > -Original Message- > From: Matt Wilkie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 4:57 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: setup fails: "Can't open (null) for

Re: setup fails: "Can't open (null) for reading: No such file"

>>>Are you aware that 'install from internet' also makes the install >>>sets available? >> >>When I read the instructions a month ago, I got the impression that >>'install from internet' would not save the downloaded packages after >>installing them. Perhaps the documentation (and/or the behavio

RE: setup fails: "Can't open (null) for reading: No such file"

on. > -Original Message- > From: Perry Hutchison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2002 2:13 PM > To: Robert Collins > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: setup fails: "Can't open (null) for reading: No > such file" > > &g

RE: setup fails: "Can't open (null) for reading: No such file"

> > When I read the instructions a month ago, I got the=20 > > impression that 'install from internet' would not save the=20 > > downloaded packages after installing them. Perhaps the=20 > > documentation (and/or the behavior of > > setup) has changed since then. > > It hasn't changed in years.

RE: Re: setup fails: "Can't open (null) for reading: No such file"

> -Original Message- > From: Michael A Chase [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2002 11:33 AM > You can tell which packages have installed by > looking in /etc/setup for *.lst.gz . Please don't suggest this. The supported fashion is cygcheck -c. Rob -- Unsubscribe

Re: setup fails: "Can't open (null) for reading: No such file"

On Sat, 4 May 02 14:11:37 PDT Perry Hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Are you aware that 'install from internet' also makes the install > > sets available? > > When I read the instructions a month ago, I got the impression that > 'install from internet' would not save the downloaded packa

RE: setup fails: "Can't open (null) for reading: No such file"

> -Original Message- > From: Perry Hutchison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2002 7:12 AM > To: Robert Collins > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: setup fails: "Can't open (null) for reading: No > such file" > >

RE: setup fails: "Can't open (null) for reading: No such file"

> > > Why did you run a two-step install? > > > > To have the install sets available for setting up other machines, > > or for reinstalling this one if (when!) Windoze gets hosed. > > Are you aware that 'install from internet' also makes the install > sets available? When I read the instructions

RE: setup fails: "Can't open (null) for reading: No such file"

Ok, to upgrade setup, download a new one from http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe. > -Original Message- > From: Perry Hutchison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2002 6:00 PM > > What options did you select when running setup? > > Install from Local Directory > next scre

RE: setup fails: "Can't open (null) for reading: No such file"

> What options did you select when running setup? Install from Local Directory next screen unchanged (root C:\cygwin, all users, Unix files) next screen unchanged (local pkg dir C:\download\cygwin) Here it suggests upgrading setup, but doesn't provide a means to do so. Select to install the newly

RE: setup fails: "Can't open (null) for reading: No such file"

2 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: setup fails: "Can't open (null) for reading: No such file" > > > About a month ago, I downloaded and installed a fairly > minimal Cygwin subset. Tonight, I downloaded some additional > packages. When I attempted to

setup fails: "Can't open (null) for reading: No such file"

About a month ago, I downloaded and installed a fairly minimal Cygwin subset. Tonight, I downloaded some additional packages. When I attempted to install them, setup produced a message box: Can't open (null) for reading: No such file Retrying the installation yields the same message. I fo

setup fails with 'error: unknown file type'

I'm trying to install the latest cygwin. I keep getting error: unknown (or unsupported) file type 't' I have tried different mirrors, both http nad ftp. I've tried downloading first and installing from a local directory. I have tried installing often enough that I have a parital install, so