Re: Cygwin default installation: command not foundâ

[Dave Korn <dave dot korn dot cygwin at googlemail dot com>]

On 06/04/2010 14:56, Morgan Gangwere wrote:
> On 4/6/2010 6:38 AM, Morgan Gangwere wrote:

> I've looked through the logfiles that Mr. Nescio has provided and found
> a few lines that look messed up:
> 
> There are quite a few instances of this
> --------8<------ setup.log.full -----%<--------
> 2010/04/06 13:29:22 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile
> /etc/postinstall/bash.sh
>       3 [main] bash 3936 C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error -
> couldn't allocate heap, Win32 error 487, base 0x6D0000, top 0x730000,
> reserve_size 389120, allocsize 393216, page_const 4096
>       2 [main] bash 3624 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp
> before initialization, retry 0, exit code 0x100, errno 11

  Right, so this is what caused the postinstall scripts to fail, and explains
why the user's profile files weren't created.

> What doesnt make sense is that the method of failure is odd because this
> points to a bug in bash (Region stuff?)
> 
> McAffee isnt there to complain, so its proabably not something on listings.

  I wonder if DEP is enabled on this machine?  That can cause those kinds of
massive failures.  Matthijs, can you try disabling DEP in "system
properties->advanced->performance options" (see
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/cc700810.aspx for info) and then
run setup.exe again, only in "install from local directory" mode; set
everything to reinstall on the package chooser screen and see if it completes
successfully this time?

> This also pinged my curiosity in setup.log:
> 
> 2010/04/06 13:27:37 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/extrakeys)
> failed 2 No such file or directory
> 2010/04/06 13:27:37 io_stream_cygfile:
> fopen(/etc/setup/chooser_window_settings) failed 2 No such file or
> directory
> 
> I wonder if this is UAC getting in the way?

  Don't see any reason to assume it's anything other than that those files
genuinely didn't exist.  First run on a fresh installation and all that.

    cheers,
      DaveK


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