I had a similar problem upgrading on XP. I think my issue was related to a heap space allocation issue which prevents the shell from running during the installation. I found that failed installations left shell processes running, but not doing anything useful.
Check the documentation as I believe there is a fix for the heap space issue. In my case, I killed these useless shells and that allowed the Cygwin bash shell to start up with out heap space errors. I cleaned out the /etc/postinstall directory by removing any shell scripts (rm *.sh) and rerunning the setup. Cygwin installed okay for me after that. Hope this helps. Sincerely, Brian S. Wilson ---------- Original Message ----------- From: Gregg Levine <gregg.drw...@gmail.com> To: cygwin@cygwin.com Sent: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:50:53 -0500 Subject: Re: Windows 7 > On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Dave Korn > <dave.korn.cyg...@........ wrote: > > On 28/01/2010 06:28, Hirokazu Miura wrote: > >> I am having problems in installing cygwin on a HP Pavilion 64bits platform. > > > > HP tend to ship their boxes with a ton of irritating and semi-useless stuff > > preinstalled. Check if anything you have on the box is listed on BLODA: > > > > http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda > > > > cheers, > > DaveK > > > Hello! > I agree! > This Dell Inspirion 1545 arrived wearing a heck of a lot of useless > items, including their chosen Anti-virus programs. > > I strongly suggest you go through that list of items on the FAQ, and > see if anything on your system matches it. > > Following it, then simply choose the steps that work for you. The one > Eliot suggests in fact is how I normally proceed in point of fact. > > ----- > Gregg C Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com > "This signature was once found posting rude messages in English in > the Moscow subway." > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple ------- End of Original Message ------- -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple