Re: A vexing installation problem

[David Hinds <dhinds at sonic dot net>]

On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 03:18:05PM -0500, Larry Hall wrote:
> At 02:59 PM 11/29/2004, you wrote:
> >The postinstall scripts are all cygwin shell scripts and thus require
> >a functional 'sh' to do anything.  And, as with all other cygwin
> >programs, 'sh' just exits without doing anything.  
> 
> 
> Yep, so I'd recommend starting there.  Check the Windows properties here
> to see who owns the file and who has permissions to execute it, etc.  Also,
> you could do a strace on 'sh' to see if anything interesting shows up from
> that.  Hopefully you'll see something interesting as a result.

File permissions appear ok as far as I can tell.  The 'strace' output
seems consistent with no permission problems; I'm able to execute all
commands, cygwin1.dll is found, and things run for a short while
before dying.

'strace sh.exe' looks like any other command I try:

  ...
  564  105230 [main] bash 3892 cygheap_user::ontherange: what 2, pw 0xA0510C8
  224  105454 [main] bash 3892 cygheap_user::ontherange: HOME is already in the environment /cygdrive/h
  756  106210 [main] bash 3892 sigproc_init: process/signal handling enabled(1001)
  365  106575 [main] bash 3892 __cygwin_lock_lock: threadcount 1. not locking
  304  106879 [main] bash 3892 __cygwin_lock_unlock: threadcount 1. not unlocking

and I'm back to the Windows command prompt at this point.  I thought
maybe there could be something odd in my environment, but deleting all
entries has no effect: I still see the exact same behavior with an
environment that consists, in its entirety, of "PATH=.".

By hunting around on the internet, I was able to find some old cygwin
versions to test.  With an old version of 'mount', I get normal output
with the 1.5.5-1 version of cygwin1.dll, but 1.5.6-1 behaves the same
as 1.5.11-1 and 1.5.12-1 (no output, exits following sigproc_init).

I see that the 1.5.6-1 release changed signal processing which seems
suggestive given that the last substantive output of 'strace' comes
when signal handling is enabled.

-- Dave

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