Hello.
I have used Cygwin since the year 2000, possibly 1999.
Throughout the years I have had no problem installing and using my
Cygwin installation; first on Win98, WinNt, Windows 2000, and Windows =
XP.
This year however I have not been able to achieve a good installation of =
Cygwin. even though the steps I have taken are exactly the same ones I =
used in the past: From the "setup.exe" program, using either "Install
directly
from the Internet" (with direct connection), or Downloading it
first, then installing from a local directory.
What I get are problems with the post-install scripts, which often hang
there, doing nothing.
I am working in XP/SP3 now.
Most recently the post-install scripts seem to have run fine, and the
installation was complete, I attempted to start Cygwin. I even took the
precaution of creating the password and group files with the mkpasswd
and mkgroup programs, with the commands:
$ mkpasswd -l -g > /etc/passwd
$ mkgroup -l > /etc/group
I have also made sure my home directory in the Windows environment was
set to
HOME=C:\cygwin\home\baz
and that the CYGWIN environment variable was set to:
CYGWIN=ntsec binmode tty glob
(I also tried with "nontsec")
Having done this, I can press the "Cygwin" icon and get a command console
that LOOKS like Cygwin, but the directory I get places in is /usr/bin,
and there
is not even a default path, so that I have to type in things like
"/bin/ls" or
"/bin/mount".
Doing a "/bin/bash --login -i" has the same effect, as do
all attempt to start the program with Cygwin.bat from a cmd.exe prompt.
I do not know if I have missed some crucial and recent change, or what.
The same installation process used to work just fine. This year (2008),
I have only had the non-success described above.
Please help if you can.