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problems installing cygwin on vista


In the past, I have installed cygwin on several Windows XP
systems with no problems.

However, I am encountering severe problems installing
cygwin on vista.
The installation process stalls quietly during the postinstall
phase. The only way to end the process is to 'cancel'.
No home diretory is created, no icons.

In principal, the
/var/log/setup.log.full
file should reveal what's going wrong.
I am not sufficiently knowledgeable to interpret
this file. So, I'm attaching it.

Repeatedly, statements of this nature occur in the log file:

2007/10/25 09:38:53 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c /etc/postinstall/email.sh
/usr/bin/bash: /cygdrive/c/Users/francesca/.bashrc: Bad address
sed: can't read /etc/passwd: No such file or directory
2007/10/25 09:38:56 abnormal exit: exit code=2
2007/10/25 09:38:56 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c /etc/postinstall/enscript.sh
/usr/bin/bash: /cygdrive/c/Users/francesca/.bashrc: Bad address
2007/10/25 09:38:56 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c /etc/postinstall/exim.sh
/usr/bin/bash: /cygdrive/c/Users/francesca/.bashrc: Bad address
sed: can't read /etc/passwd: No such file or directory
2007/10/25 09:38:57 abnormal exit: exit code=2

To a knowledgeable person this may provide an indication
of what's wrong.

I greatly appreciate any advice.

Thank you,

Rup
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Ruprecht `Rupert' Machleidt
Department of Physics                   Phone: 208-885-6380
Engineerin/Physics Building 327         FAX: 208-885-4055
University of Idaho                     e-mail: machleid@uidaho.edu
Moscow, ID 83844-0903
U. S. A.
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Attachment: setup.log.full
Description: Text document

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