RE: Setup.exe Problems on Vista

2007-05-03 Thread Dave Korn
On 02 May 2007 14:13, Aaron Gray wrote: Just on the offchance, do you have any of these installed? Windows Defender AFAIK Windows Defender is built in to Vista. Aaron Been known to cause problems before: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-01/msg00742.html although it's not relevant

Re: Setup.exe Problems on Vista

2007-05-03 Thread Michael D. Adams
On 5/3/07, Dave Korn wrote: On 02 May 2007 22:37, Michael D. Adams wrote: This is a bit of a bummer. I can't reproduce the error anymore. I have absolutely no idea what changed. I moved the old version out of the way and cleaned the registry, but the bug still won't appear. I guess just

Re: Setup.exe Problems on Vista

2007-05-02 Thread Michael D. Adams
On 4/30/07, Igor Peshansky wrote: On Sun, 29 Apr 2007, Michael D. Adams wrote: On 4/24/07, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Michael D. Adams wrote: On 4/23/07, Dave Korn dave.korn AT artimi DOT com wrote: On 24 April 2007 00:19, Michael D. Adams wrote: snip What's going on here could

RE: Setup.exe Problems on Vista

2007-05-02 Thread Dave Korn
On 02 May 2007 22:37, Michael D. Adams wrote: This is a bit of a bummer. I can't reproduce the error anymore. I have absolutely no idea what changed. I moved the old version out of the way and cleaned the registry, but the bug still won't appear. I guess just hope the next person to run

Re: Setup.exe Problems on Vista

2007-05-02 Thread Aaron Gray
Just on the offchance, do you have any of these installed? Windows Defender AFAIK Windows Defender is built in to Vista. Aaron -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: Setup.exe Problems on Vista

2007-04-30 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Sun, 29 Apr 2007, Michael D. Adams wrote: On 4/24/07, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Michael D. Adams wrote: On 4/23/07, Dave Korn dave.korn AT artimi DOT com wrote: On 24 April 2007 00:19, Michael D. Adams wrote: snip What's going on here could be related to security changes in the

Re: Setup.exe Problems on Vista

2007-04-29 Thread Michael D. Adams
On 4/24/07, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Michael D. Adams wrote: On 4/23/07, Dave Korn dave.korn AT artimi DOT com wrote: On 24 April 2007 00:19, Michael D. Adams wrote: snip What's going on here could be related to security changes in the way Vista handles dll and executable search

Re: Setup.exe Problems on Vista

2007-04-23 Thread Michael D. Adams
On 4/22/07, Brian Dessent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian Dessent wrote: The workaround for this problem that I have found is to set the *Windows* path to include C:\cygwin\bin before running setup.exe. So for example this sequence works: set PATH=C:\cygwin\bin;%PATH% setup.exe

RE: Setup.exe Problems on Vista

2007-04-23 Thread Dave Korn
On 24 April 2007 00:19, Michael D. Adams wrote: On 4/22/07, Brian Dessent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please, Michael, try and http://cygwin.com/acronyms#PCYMTNQREAIYR avoid quoting people's email addresses. Thanks. The workaround for this problem that I have found is to set the *Windows*

Re: Setup.exe Problems on Vista

2007-04-23 Thread Michael D. Adams
On 4/23/07, Dave Korn dave.korn AT artimi DOT com wrote: On 24 April 2007 00:19, Michael D. Adams wrote: On 4/22/07, Brian Dessent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please, Michael, try and http://cygwin.com/acronyms#PCYMTNQREAIYR avoid quoting people's email addresses. Thanks. Thank you for

Re: Setup.exe Problems on Vista

2007-04-23 Thread Michael D. Adams
On 4/23/07, Dave Korn dave.korn AT artimi DOT com wrote: On 24 April 2007 00:19, Michael D. Adams wrote: On 4/22/07, Brian Dessent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The workaround for this problem that I have found is to set the *Windows* path to include C:\cygwin\bin before running setup.exe. So

Re: Setup.exe Problems on Vista

2007-04-23 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Michael D. Adams wrote: On 4/23/07, Dave Korn dave.korn AT artimi DOT com wrote: On 24 April 2007 00:19, Michael D. Adams wrote: On 4/22/07, Brian Dessent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The workaround for this problem that I have found is to set the *Windows* path to include C:\cygwin\bin before

Re: Setup.exe Problems on Vista

2007-04-22 Thread Brian Dessent
Michael D. Adams wrote: The workaround for this problem that I have found is to set the *Windows* path to include C:\cygwin\bin before running setup.exe. So for example this sequence works: set PATH=C:\cygwin\bin;%PATH% setup.exe Then /bin/sh is actually created, the prompt is the

Re: Setup.exe Problems on Vista

2007-04-22 Thread Greg Chicares
On 2007-04-22 14:38Z, Michael D. Adams wrote: On 4/22/07, Brian Dessent [raw email address removed] wrote: Please try the latest setup.exe snapshot, if you can. And even better would be to debug the problem. [...] Where are those snapshots located? A quick google didn't turn them up.

Re: Setup.exe Problems on Vista

2007-04-22 Thread Morgan Gangwere
On 4/22/07, Brian Dessent brian(a)dessent.net wrote: Michael D. Adams wrote: The workaround for this problem that I have found is to set the *Windows* path to include C:\cygwin\bin before running setup.exe. So for example this sequence works: set PATH=C:\cygwin\bin;%PATH% setup.exe

Re: Setup.exe Problems on Vista

2007-04-22 Thread Michael D. Adams
On 4/22/07, Michael D. Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/22/07, Brian Dessent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael D. Adams wrote: The workaround for this problem that I have found is to set the *Windows* path to include C:\cygwin\bin before running setup.exe. So for example this sequence

Re: Setup.exe Problems on Vista

2007-04-22 Thread Michael D. Adams
On 4/22/07, Brian Dessent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael D. Adams wrote: The workaround for this problem that I have found is to set the *Windows* path to include C:\cygwin\bin before running setup.exe. So for example this sequence works: set PATH=C:\cygwin\bin;%PATH% setup.exe Then

Re: Setup.exe Problems on Vista

2007-04-22 Thread Jim Kleckner
Brian Dessent wrote: Michael D. Adams wrote: he workaround for this problem that I have found is to set the *Windows* path to include C:\cygwin\bin before running setup.exe. So for example this sequence works: set PATH=C:\cygwin\bin;%PATH% setup.exe Then /bin/sh is actually created, the

Re: Setup.exe Problems on Vista

2007-04-22 Thread Brian Dessent
Michael D. Adams wrote: Please try the latest setup.exe snapshot, if you can. And even better would be to debug the problem. I don't have access to a Vista system but if I did I think I would start by running it under gdb/insight and putting a breakpoint at script.cc:run() right before

Re: Setup.exe Problems on Vista

2007-04-22 Thread Brian Dessent
Brian Dessent wrote: The workaround for this problem that I have found is to set the *Windows* path to include C:\cygwin\bin before running setup.exe. So for example this sequence works: set PATH=C:\cygwin\bin;%PATH% setup.exe Then /bin/sh is actually created, the prompt is the

Setup.exe Problems on Vista

2007-04-21 Thread Michael D. Adams
I recently installed Cygwin on Vista and found a few problems but also a workaround that I haven't seen documented on the mailing list archives so here it goes. Setup.exe appears to finish successfully when it is run. However, the /etc/postinstall scripts do not actually run correctly. This is