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Re: Postinstall failure


I reset the entire C drive's permissions to Everyone -- Full Access,
installed cygwin, then reset the drive back to SYSTEM/Administrators the way
it was before and added Everyone -- Execute to the cygwin directory.

Works fine now. Thanks for your help.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Igor Pechtchanski" <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>
To: "Nebob" <nbozovic1@rogers.com>
Cc: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 5:46 PM
Subject: Re: Postinstall failure


> On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Nebob wrote:
>
> > I searched don't hit me!
> >
> > The problem is that the postinstall scripts fail to execute properly and
> > leave me with a non-functional cygwin installation. ie: clicking the
cygwin
> > shortcut leads to a "bash-2.05b$" prompt from which no commands work.
System
> > is XP SP1. setup.exe is 2.340.2.5.
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > Linked is a 97.9KB rar archive containing setup.log, setup.log.full,
> > cygcheck -svr and env.
> >
> > http://members.rogers.com/nbozovic1/diag.rar
> >
> > Here's some more information:
> >
> > bash-2.05b$ /bin/ls -ld /bin
> > d---------    3 Nebob    ????????        0 Aug 27 15:14 /bin
>   ^^^^^^^^^^               ^^^^^^^^
> These should ring a bell.  See
> <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#NTSEC-RELEASE1.3.20> for
> details.  There also seems to be some issue with mapping ACLs to
> permissions -- please post the output of "/bin/getfacl /bin".
>
> > bash-2.05b$ /bin/mount
> > C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (textmode)
> > C:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (textmode)
> > C:\cygwin on / type system (textmode)
> > c: on /cygdrive/c type user (textmode,noumount)
> > d: on /cygdrive/d type user (textmode,noumount)
>
> No problems here.
>
> > bash-2.05b$ type -a /bin/id
> > /bin/id is /bin/id
> >
> > bash-2.05b$ /bin/ls -l /bin/id
> > ----------    1 Nebob    ????????    26112 Jan  7  2003 /bin/id
> >
> > Everything in /etc/postinstall has a .done extension.
> >
> > /home, /etc/passwd and /etc/group were not generated.
> >
> > I'd appreciate any and all assistance.
>
> Apparently none of your executables have the execute permission -- most
> likely because of some inherited permissions on a Windows directory.  For
> a short-term solution, try adding "nontsec" to your CYGWIN environment
> variable and exiting all Cygwin processes.  New processes started after
> that should work, more or less.  For a long-term solution, you might have
> to do a recursive "chmod", once you figure out which permissions you need,
> or fix up inherited ACLs on the c:\cygwin directory and reinstall Cygwin.
> Igor
> -- 
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