Re: Problem with setup.exe - C:\cygwin\bin\* isn't created

[morgan gangwere]

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Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> * Dave Korn (Wed, 30 May 2007 11:18:12 +0100)
>> On 30 May 2007 11:08, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
>>> * Jean-Pierre Bogler (Wed, 30 May 2007 07:16:42 +0200)
 I hope you can help me, I'm really having problems to install cygwin.

 My OS is Win2k SP 2. I have downloaded the latest version of setup.exe
 (2.510.2.2) and stored it into C:\cyginstall.
 I started the installation with administrator rights. Then I went through
 the installation choosing: 

 - Installation from Internet
 - C:\cygwin as root path
 The download process worked well an the installation began. After the
 installation I decided to add a desktop icon and double clicked on it.
 The dos box told me that it can't change the directory und can't find
 bash.exe :(, so I looked into the C:\cygwin directory.

 The only installed directories are: etc, lib, sbin, usr, var. And the
 files: cygwin.bat and cygwin.ico. There is no bin directory!
 The setup.log file is full of the complaining listed below (... means that
 the message above appears more than once).

 I hope you can help me. Many thanks in advance!
>>> I mean sorry, why don't you have a look at it yourself?! It's not
>>> Sanskrit and it's pretty self-explaining. "running: c:\Dokumente und
>>> Einstellungen\Wohnzimmer\Desktop\PDFMergeW\PDFMerge\bin\\bash.exe -
>>> c" - couldn't get much more explicit, could it?
>>
>>   Yes, but that's very far from an explanation of just how on earth the bin 
>> directory got installed in such an unexpected place, particularly when all 
>> the other directories ended up in the correct location.
> 
> "A small tool to merge several PDF files into one PDF file (based on 
> Ghostscript). It has the following the features: Add/Remove PDF files; 
> Adjust the order of the PDF files; Merge the PDF file based on 
> ps2pdf."
> 
> I guess PDFMerge brings its own small cygwin/bash/ghostscript 
> installation with it.
> 
> 
> 
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yep

SAME with irssi and such - you gotta take them out totally before you
can do much else.

and yes its a bunch of 3pp who did this - i just remember to take
"c:\program files\irssi\bin\" or whatever out of my PATH.

also, cygwin1.dll apparently does something to the registry? where it
lives, it thinks that that is bin/

gah.

hope that helps :)
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RE: Problem with setup.exe - C:\cygwin\bin\* isn't created

[Thorsten Kampe]

* Dave Korn (Wed, 30 May 2007 11:18:12 +0100)
> On 30 May 2007 11:08, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> > * Jean-Pierre Bogler (Wed, 30 May 2007 07:16:42 +0200)
> >> I hope you can help me, I'm really having problems to install cygwin.
> >> 
> >> My OS is Win2k SP 2. I have downloaded the latest version of setup.exe
> >> (2.510.2.2) and stored it into C:\cyginstall.
> >> I started the installation with administrator rights. Then I went through
> >> the installation choosing: 
> >> 
> >> - Installation from Internet
> >> - C:\cygwin as root path
> 
> >> The download process worked well an the installation began. After the
> >> installation I decided to add a desktop icon and double clicked on it.
> >> The dos box told me that it can't change the directory und can't find
> >> bash.exe :(, so I looked into the C:\cygwin directory.
> >> 
> >> The only installed directories are: etc, lib, sbin, usr, var. And the
> >> files: cygwin.bat and cygwin.ico. There is no bin directory!
> >> The setup.log file is full of the complaining listed below (... means that
> >> the message above appears more than once).
> >> 
> >> I hope you can help me. Many thanks in advance!
> > 
> > I mean sorry, why don't you have a look at it yourself?! It's not
> > Sanskrit and it's pretty self-explaining. "running: c:\Dokumente und
> > Einstellungen\Wohnzimmer\Desktop\PDFMergeW\PDFMerge\bin\\bash.exe -
> > c" - couldn't get much more explicit, could it?
> 
> 
>   Yes, but that's very far from an explanation of just how on earth the bin 
> directory got installed in such an unexpected place, particularly when all 
> the other directories ended up in the correct location.

"A small tool to merge several PDF files into one PDF file (based on 
Ghostscript). It has the following the features: Add/Remove PDF files; 
Adjust the order of the PDF files; Merge the PDF file based on 
ps2pdf."

I guess PDFMerge brings its own small cygwin/bash/ghostscript 
installation with it.



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Re: Problem with setup.exe - C:\cygwin\bin\* isn't created

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 05/30/2007, Dave wrote:
> Dave Korn wrote:
> > > On 30 May 2007 11:08, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> >> >> * Jean-Pierre Bogler (Wed, 30 May 2007 07:16:42 +0200)
> >>> >>> The download process worked well an the installation began. After 
> the
> >>> >>> installation I decided to add a desktop icon and double clicked on 
> it.
> >>> >>> The dos box told me that it can't change the directory und can't 
> find
> >>> >>> bash.exe  :( , so I looked into the C:\cygwin directory.
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> The only installed directories are: etc, lib, sbin, usr, var. And 
> the
> >>> >>> files: cygwin.bat and cygwin.ico. There is no bin directory!
> >>> >>> The setup.log file is full of the complaining listed below (... 
> means that
> >>> >>> the message above appears more than once).
> >>> >>>
> > >   Yes, but that's very far from an explanation of just how on earth the 
> bin directory got installed in such an unexpected place, particularly when 
> all the other directories ended up in the correct location.
> 
> I've seen this before. To reproduce:
> 
> 1. Install cygwin to some directory, say "c:\bizarro_path".
> 2. Optionally uninstall cygwin.
> 3. Install cygwin to another directory, "c:\cygwin"
> 
> The first install set up your /bin mount to point to "c:\bizarro_path\bin".

In this case, the "bad" bin directory appears to be the result of a
 - PDFMerge in this case.

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Re: Problem with setup.exe - C:\cygwin\bin\* isn't created

[Dave]

Dave Korn wrote:
> On 30 May 2007 11:08, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
>> * Jean-Pierre Bogler (Wed, 30 May 2007 07:16:42 +0200)
>>> The download process worked well an the installation began. After the
>>> installation I decided to add a desktop icon and double clicked on it.
>>> The dos box told me that it can't change the directory und can't find
>>> bash.exe :(, so I looked into the C:\cygwin directory.
>>>
>>> The only installed directories are: etc, lib, sbin, usr, var. And the
>>> files: cygwin.bat and cygwin.ico. There is no bin directory!
>>> The setup.log file is full of the complaining listed below (... means that
>>> the message above appears more than once).
>>>
>   Yes, but that's very far from an explanation of just how on earth the bin 
> directory got installed in such an unexpected place, particularly when all 
> the other directories ended up in the correct location.

I've seen this before. To reproduce:

1. Install cygwin to some directory, say "c:\bizarro_path".
2. Optionally uninstall cygwin.
3. Install cygwin to another directory, "c:\cygwin"

The first install set up your /bin mount to point to "c:\bizarro_path\bin".

During the second install setup.exe places almost everything in
c:\cygwin. However the contents of /bin go to the existing mount point
at "c:\bizarro_path\bin". This is necessary so cygwin updates work when
you've mounted bin somewhere non-standard.

Specifically, when this problem happens cygwin.bat tries to run bash in
c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe which is not there.

Simple enough to fix, just clear you mounts and reinstall.
c:\bizarro_path\bin\umount -a (IIRC)

I was thinking of submitting a patch to setup to warn users of /bin
being in a non-standard location relative to the install path, but
reasoned this is:

a) not a very frequent occurence
b) usually the user trying to do something strange*


Regards,

DaveK2.

* Having multiple cygwins scattered about the place, and in some cases
running them concurrently.

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RE: Problem with setup.exe - C:\cygwin\bin\* isn't created

[Dave Korn]

On 30 May 2007 11:08, Thorsten Kampe wrote:

> * Jean-Pierre Bogler (Wed, 30 May 2007 07:16:42 +0200)
>> I hope you can help me, I'm really having problems to install cygwin.
>> 
>> My OS is Win2k SP 2. I have downloaded the latest version of setup.exe
>> (2.510.2.2) and stored it into C:\cyginstall.
>> I started the installation with administrator rights. Then I went through
>> the installation choosing: 
>> 
>> - Installation from Internet
>> - C:\cygwin as root path

>> The download process worked well an the installation began. After the
>> installation I decided to add a desktop icon and double clicked on it.
>> The dos box told me that it can't change the directory und can't find
>> bash.exe :(, so I looked into the C:\cygwin directory.
>> 
>> The only installed directories are: etc, lib, sbin, usr, var. And the
>> files: cygwin.bat and cygwin.ico. There is no bin directory!
>> The setup.log file is full of the complaining listed below (... means that
>> the message above appears more than once).
>> 
>> I hope you can help me. Many thanks in advance!
> 
> I mean sorry, why don't you have a look at it yourself?! It's not
> Sanskrit and it's pretty self-explaining. "running: c:\Dokumente und
> Einstellungen\Wohnzimmer\Desktop\PDFMergeW\PDFMerge\bin\\bash.exe -
> c" - couldn't get much more explicit, could it?


  Yes, but that's very far from an explanation of just how on earth the bin 
directory got installed in such an unexpected place, particularly when all the 
other directories ended up in the correct location.


cheers,
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Re: Problem with setup.exe - C:\cygwin\bin\* isn't created

[Thorsten Kampe]

* Jean-Pierre Bogler (Wed, 30 May 2007 07:16:42 +0200)
> I hope you can help me, I'm really having problems to install cygwin.
> 
> My OS is Win2k SP 2. I have downloaded the latest version of setup.exe
> (2.510.2.2) and stored it into C:\cyginstall.
> I started the installation with administrator rights. Then I went through
> the installation choosing:
> 
> - Installation from Internet
> - C:\cygwin as root path
> - Install for all users
> - Textfile type: Unix/binary
> - Internet Connection: Direct Connection
> - A mirror near to me: http://linux.rz.tuhr-uni-bochum.de
> - I did not change the package settings and wanted to make a default
> installation
> 
> The download process worked well an the installation began. After the
> installation I decided to add a desktop icon and double clicked on it.
> The dos box told me that it can't change the directory und can't find
> bash.exe :(, so I looked into the C:\cygwin directory.
> 
> The only installed directories are: etc, lib, sbin, usr, var. And the files:
> cygwin.bat and cygwin.ico. There is no bin directory!
> The setup.log file is full of the complaining listed below (... means that
> the message above appears more than once).
> 
> I hope you can help me. Many thanks in advance!

I mean sorry, why don't you have a look at it yourself?! It's not 
Sanskrit and it's pretty self-explaining. "running: c:\Dokumente und
Einstellungen\Wohnzimmer\Desktop\PDFMergeW\PDFMerge\bin\\bash.exe -
c" - couldn't get much more explicit, could it?

T.


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Problem with setup.exe - C:\cygwin\bin\* isn't created

[Jean-Pierre Bogler]

Hello all,

I hope you can help me, I'm really having problems to install cygwin.

My OS is Win2k SP 2. I have downloaded the latest version of setup.exe
(2.510.2.2) and stored it into C:\cyginstall.
I started the installation with administrator rights. Then I went through
the installation choosing:

- Installation from Internet
- C:\cygwin as root path
- Install for all users
- Textfile type: Unix/binary
- Internet Connection: Direct Connection
- A mirror near to me: http://linux.rz.tuhr-uni-bochum.de
- I did not change the package settings and wanted to make a default
installation

The download process worked well an the installation began. After the
installation I decided to add a desktop icon and double clicked on it.
The dos box told me that it can't change the directory und can't find
bash.exe :(, so I looked into the C:\cygwin directory.

The only installed directories are: etc, lib, sbin, usr, var. And the files:
cygwin.bat and cygwin.ico. There is no bin directory!
The setup.log file is full of the complaining listed below (... means that
the message above appears more than once).

I hope you can help me. Many thanks in advance!

Jean-Pierre

2007/05/30 07:09:44 Starting cygwin install, version 2.510.2.2
2007/05/30 07:09:44 io_stream_cygfile: fopen failed 2 No such file or
directory
...
2007/05/30 07:09:44 Current Directory: C:\cyginstall
2007/05/30 07:09:44 Changing gid to Users
2007/05/30 07:09:44 Could not open service McShield for query, start and
stop. McAfee may not be installed, or we don't have access.
2007/05/30 07:09:46 io_stream_cygfile: fopen failed 2 No such file or
directory
...
2007/05/30 07:09:47 source: from cwd
2007/05/30 07:09:48 root: C:\cygwin binary system
2007/05/30 07:09:49 io_stream_cygfile: fopen failed 2 No such file or
directory
...
2007/05/30 07:09:49 Selected local directory: C:\cyginstall
2007/05/30 07:09:49 io_stream_cygfile: fopen failed 2 No such file or
directory

...
2007/05/30 07:09:58 Installing
file://C:\cyginstall/http%3a%2f%2flinux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de%2fdownload%2fc
ygwin/release/alternatives/alternatives-1.3.29a-1.tar.bz2
.(all the packages).
2007/05/30 07:10:55 Visited: 54 nodes out of 116.
2007/05/30 07:10:55 Dependency ordered install:
2007/05/30 07:10:55 alternatives
(packages)..
2007/05/30 07:10:55 running: c:\Dokumente und
Einstellungen\Wohnzimmer\Desktop\PDFMergeW\PDFMerge\bin\\bash.exe -c
/etc/postinstall/00ash.sh
2007/05/30 07:10:57 abnormal exit: exit code=0
2007/05/30 07:10:57 running: c:\Dokumente und
Einstellungen\Wohnzimmer\Desktop\PDFMergeW\PDFMerge\bin\\bash.exe -c
/etc/postinstall/00bash.sh
2007/05/30 07:10:58 abnormal exit: exit code=0
2007/05/30 07:10:58 running: c:\Dokumente und
Einstellungen\Wohnzimmer\Desktop\PDFMergeW\PDFMerge\bin\\bash.exe -c
/etc/postinstall/base-files-mketc.sh
2007/05/30 07:10:59 abnormal exit: exit code=0
2007/05/30 07:10:59 running: c:\Dokumente und
Einstellungen\Wohnzimmer\Desktop\PDFMergeW\PDFMerge\bin\\bash.exe -c
/etc/postinstall/base-files-profile.sh
2007/05/30 07:11:00 abnormal exit: exit code=0
2007/05/30 07:11:00 running: c:\Dokumente und
Einstellungen\Wohnzimmer\Desktop\PDFMergeW\PDFMerge\bin\\bash.exe -c
/etc/postinstall/bzip2.sh
2007/05/30 07:11:00 abnormal exit: exit code=0
2007/05/30 07:11:00 running: c:\Dokumente und
Einstellungen\Wohnzimmer\Desktop\PDFMergeW\PDFMerge\bin\\bash.exe -c
/etc/postinstall/coreutils.sh
2007/05/30 07:11:00 abnormal exit: exit code=0
2007/05/30 07:11:00 running: c:\Dokumente und
Einstellungen\Wohnzimmer\Desktop\PDFMergeW\PDFMerge\bin\\bash.exe -c
/etc/postinstall/cygwin-doc.sh
2007/05/30 07:11:02 abnormal exit: exit code=0
2007/05/30 07:11:02 running: c:\Dokumente und
Einstellungen\Wohnzimmer\Desktop\PDFMergeW\PDFMerge\bin\\bash.exe -c
/etc/postinstall/findutils.sh
2007/05/30 07:11:03 abnormal exit: exit code=0
2007/05/30 07:11:03 running: c:\Dokumente und
Einstellungen\Wohnzimmer\Desktop\PDFMergeW\PDFMerge\bin\\bash.exe -c
/etc/postinstall/libgdbm-devel.sh
2007/05/30 07:11:03 abnormal exit: exit code=0
2007/05/30 07:11:03 running: c:\Dokumente und
Einstellungen\Wohnzimmer\Desktop\PDFMergeW\PDFMerge\bin\\bash.exe -c
/etc/postinstall/man.sh
2007/05/30 07:11:03 abnormal exit: exit code=0
2007/05/30 07:11:03 running: c:\Dokumente und
Einstellungen\Wohnzimmer\Desktop\PDFMergeW\PDFMerge\bin\\bash.exe -c
/etc/postinstall/passwd-grp.sh
2007/05/30 07:11:04 abnormal exit: exit code=0
2007/05/30 07:11:04 running: c:\Dokumente und
Einstellungen\Wohnzimmer\Desktop\PDFMergeW\PDFMerge\bin\\bash.exe -c
/etc/postinstall/tar.sh
2007/05/30 07:11:05 abnormal exit: exit code=0
2007/05/30 07:11:05 running: c:\Dokumente und
Einstellungen\Wohnzimmer\Desktop\PDFMergeW\PDFMerge\bin\\bash.exe -c
/etc/postinstall/terminfo.sh
2007/05/30 07:11:05 abnormal exit: exit code=0
2007/05/30 07:11:05 running: c:\Dokumente