This is the mail archive of the
cygwin@cygwin.com
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
Re: Postinstall failure: file not found
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: "Pierre A. Humblet" <pierre dot humblet at ieee dot org>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 21:54:49 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: Postinstall failure: file not found
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 09:14:14PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >
> > Since this is happening on a clean install, I can only assume that there
> > is something wrong with the mkpasswd invocation... But I'd be very
> > interested in Pierre's and Corinna's opinion on this.
>
> Igor, what's your reading of the log?
> We have a chicken and egg problem here. Perhaps mkpasswd works just
> fine but it was never called because passwd-grp.sh could not be
> found!
> [snip]
Ah, I didn't realize that the file could be renamed but not executed
(which is exactly what happened).
As for the log, it shows that none of the postinstall scripts were
executed (including passwd-grp.sh).
Igor
--
http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/
|\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu
ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor at watson dot ibm dot com
|,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski
'---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow!
Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
-- Leto II
--
Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/