Re: 1.5.18-1 Segfault on setup postinstall

["Andrew Comport" <acomport at hotmail dot com>]

Hello,

I am still unable to install cygwin. As a summary:
( I have windows XP Sp2 up to date.)

1. I download the most recent version of setup.exe (now 2.510.2.2).
2. I execute using default install settings.
3. Setup.exe hangs at 98% "Installing /etc/postinstall/s00ash.sh"
4. I click cancel and receive the message "installation complete".

Please note that cygwin was working nicely on my machine until about 2 
months ago. I dont know if it was a cygwin update or something else 
installed on my machine. I made a backup and deleted all traces of the old 
cygwin installation including registry entries to try and get it working.

I rely on cywin for many features (xfig, xv, open ssh, etc..) and I really 
need to get it working again. Any help would be greatly appreciated.


Thanks in advance,

Andrew



Andrew Comport wrote:

> Eric Blake wrote:
>
> > > I left the install running overnight....still no progress...
> >
> >
> >
> > Part of your problem is explained by this:
> >
> > > Not Found: sh
> >
> >
> >
> > /etc/postinstall/00ash.sh tries to set up a working /bin/sh.  If that
> > fails, then everything else is suspect.
>
> Upon inspection It is bash.exe (called within 00ash.sh) which crashes. I 
> have created a strace for bash.exe which I have attached as a file.  I have 
> been unable to decipher eactly where this crashes.
>
> Please note that i have edited the file to replace my Firstname and 
> Lastname to be Firstname and Lastname.
>
>
> > > Apparently its not cygcheck that crashes but id.exe:
> > >
> > >      3 [main] id 2792 handle_exceptions: Exception: 
> > > STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION
> > >  18910 [main] id 2792 open_stackdumpfile: Dumping stack trace to 
> > > id.exe.stackdu
> > > mp
> > > garbled output from `id' command - no uid= found
> >
> >
> >
> > Figuring this out might help.  Can you run 'strace -o strace.out id'
> > and attach strace.out to your reply, to see if something obvious
> > in id.exe or cygwin1.dll is reading bad memory?  You may also
> > want to try reinstalling coreutils, in case id.exe is corrupt.
> >
> > > I have also checked my PATH  and set it to the basic PATHs of windows 
> > > only so as to make sure no similar commands are on the path (which didnt 
> > > help).
> >
> >
> >
> > While not exactly wrong to change your PATH just before running
> > cygcheck, it is a bit counterintuitive since part of cygcheck's purpose
> > is to diagnose PATH problems in your current PATH.
>
> I actually tried both ways. One with a minimal PATH and one with 
> everything. The cygcheck output was the one without altering the full path.
>
>
> Thanks for you help so far,
>
> Andrew
>
>
>
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