Installation & Uninstallation issues

[Tim Dierks <tim at dierks dot org>]

I use cygwin successfully on my laptop, but I'm having trouble getting it 
set up on my desktop.

I've attempted to install three times now, and each time, the installation 
has failed in the same way. The immediate symptom is that shells have no 
PATH set, because /etc/profile wasn't created. However, other stuff is 
screwy, as well, which I believe resulted in some other problems I'm 
having. So rather than address the symptoms (by installing a good 
/etc/profile), I'm trying to cure the cause.

The tail end of /var/log/setup.full is:

2003/10/05 20:07:49 running: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c 
/etc/postinstall/base-files-mketc.sh
/etc/postinstall/base-files-mketc.sh: not found
2003/10/05 20:07:50 running: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c 
/etc/postinstall/base-files-profile.sh
/etc/postinstall/base-files-profile.sh: not found
2003/10/05 20:07:50 running: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c /etc/postinstall/cron.sh
/etc/postinstall/cron.sh: not found
2003/10/05 20:07:50 running: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c 
/etc/postinstall/gcc-mingw.sh
/etc/postinstall/gcc-mingw.sh: not found
2003/10/05 20:07:50 running: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c 
/etc/postinstall/passwd-grp.sh
/etc/postinstall/passwd-grp.sh: not found
2003/10/05 20:07:50 running: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c 
/etc/postinstall/terminfo.sh
/etc/postinstall/terminfo.sh: not found
2003/10/05 20:07:50 running: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c 
/etc/postinstall/update-info-dir.sh
/etc/postinstall/update-info-dir.sh: not found
2003/10/05 20:07:50 running: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c /etc/postinstall/wget.sh
/etc/postinstall/wget.sh: not found

And, in fact, those scripts are not there: instead, I've got files with 
each of those names with '.done' appended (e.g. 
"/etc/postinstall/base-files-mketc.sh.done"). However, these scripts have 
not been executed (or at least haven't run successfully).

I'm installing from an Admin account for all users on Win2K (with 
up-to-date patches, SPs, etc.).

My other problem: when removing previous installs to attempt clean 
re-installs, I am unable to delete /var/cron/tabs, even after making sure 
that the cron service is not running, renaming the cygwin directory, and 
restarting. This may be because one of my other "screwy" symptoms had to do 
with cron failing to start because it didn't have privileges to write some 
of its files, and it's left it in some state. But I can't figure out how to 
wipe the state and get Windows to let me delete the directory.

Thanks for any help,
 - Tim


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