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1.7.x: Installation fails in post install scripts - abnormal exit: exit code=128


Trying to install the latest version of cygwin with setup version
2.721 is failing for me. The progress bar is stuck at about 98% for a
very long time running the /etc/postinstall scripts, and eventually I
get the following screen:
-----------------
Postintall script errors
These do not necessarily mean that affected packages will fail to
function properly, but please check /var/loc/setup/log/full and report
any problems.

Package: base-cygwin
	000-cygwin-post-install.sh exit code 128
Package: base-passwd
	passwd-grp.sh exit code 128
Package: terminfo0
	terminfo0.sh exit code 128
Package: _update-info-dir
	update-info-dir.sh exit code 128
Package: coreutils
	coreutils.sh exit code 128
Package: terminfo
	terminfo.sh exit code 128
Package: bash
	bash.sh exit code 128
Package: base-files
	base-files-profile.sh exit code 128
	base-files-mketc.sh exit code 128
Package: man
	man.sh exit code 128
Package: No package
	000-cygwin-post-install.sh exit code 128
	base-files-mketc.sh exit code 128
	base-files-profile.sh exit code 128
	bash.sh exit code 128
	coreutils.sh exit code 128
	man.sh exit code 128
	passwd-grp.sh exit code 128
	terminfo.sh exit code 128
	terminfo0.sh exit code 128
	update-info-dir.sh exit code 128
-----------------
This initially occurred when trying to update an old installation, and
then it still happened after deleting the old installation directory
and starting from scratch.

After installing, cygwin pops up a bash shell, but commands as basic
as 'ls' do not work.

Here's the relevant snipped from setup.log (I've attached setup.log.full):
-----------------
2010/10/11 18:33:08 Starting cygwin install, version 2.721
2010/10/11 18:33:08 io_stream_cygfile:
fopen(/etc/setup/net-proxy-host) failed 2 No such file or directory
2010/10/11 18:33:08 io_stream_cygfile:
fopen(/etc/setup/net-proxy-port) failed 2 No such file or directory
2010/10/11 18:33:08 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/extrakeys)
failed 2 No such file or directory
2010/10/11 18:33:08 io_stream_cygfile:
fopen(/etc/setup/chooser_window_settings) failed 2 No such file or
directory
2010/10/11 18:33:08 Current Directory: D:\LanceDocs\installs
2010/10/11 18:33:08 User has backup/restore rights
2010/10/11 18:33:08 Changing gid to Administrators
2010/10/11 18:33:08 Could not open service McShield for query, start
and stop. McAfee may not be installed, or we don't have access.
2010/10/11 18:33:10 source: network install
2010/10/11 18:33:10 root: C:\cygwin binary system
2010/10/11 18:33:11 Selected local directory: D:\LanceDocs\installs
2010/10/11 18:33:11 net: Direct
2010/10/11 18:33:13 site:?ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/
2010/10/11 18:33:15 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/installed.db)
failed 2 No such file or directory
2010/10/11 18:34:16 Extracting from
file://D:\LanceDocs\installs/ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f/release/alternatives/alternatives-1.3.30c-10.tar.bz2
2010/10/11 18:34:17 Extracting from
file://D:\LanceDocs\installs/ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f/release/base-cygwin/base-cygwin-2.1-1.tar.bz2
2010/10/11 18:34:17 Extracting from
file://D:\LanceDocs\installs/ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f/release/base-files/base-files-3.9-3.tar.bz2
2010/10/11 18:34:17 Extracting from
file://D:\LanceDocs\installs/ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f/release/base-passwd/base-passwd-3.1-1.tar.bz2
2010/10/11 18:34:17 Extracting from
file://D:\LanceDocs\installs/ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f/release/bash/bash-3.2.51-24.tar.bz2
2010/10/11 18:34:18 Extracting from
file://D:\LanceDocs\installs/ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f/release/bzip2/bzip2-1.0.5-10.tar.bz2
2010/10/11 18:34:18 Extracting from
file://D:\LanceDocs\installs/ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f/release/coreutils/coreutils-8.5-2.tar.bz2
2010/10/11 18:34:26 Extracting from
file://D:\LanceDocs\installs/ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f/release/cygutils/cygutils-1.4.4-1.tar.bz2
2010/10/11 18:34:27 Extracting from
file://D:\LanceDocs\installs/ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f/release/cygwin/cygwin-1.7.7-1.tar.bz2
2010/10/11 18:34:30 Extracting from
file://D:\LanceDocs\installs/ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f/release/cygwin-doc/cygwin-doc-1.7-1.tar.bz2
2010/10/11 18:34:33 Extracting from
file://D:\LanceDocs\installs/ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f/release/dash/dash-0.5.6.1-2.tar.bz2
2010/10/11 18:34:33 Extracting from
file://D:\LanceDocs\installs/ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f/release/diffutils/diffutils-2.9-1.tar.bz2
2010/10/11 18:34:33 Extracting from
file://D:\LanceDocs\installs/ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f/release/editrights/editrights-1.01-2.tar.bz2
2010/10/11 18:34:33 Extracting from
file://D:\LanceDocs\installs/ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f/release/findutils/findutils-4.5.9-1.tar.bz2
2010/10/11 18:34:35 Extracting from
file://D:\LanceDocs\installs/ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f/release/gawk/gawk-3.1.8-1.tar.bz2
2010/10/11 18:34:35 Extracting from
file://D:\LanceDocs\installs/ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f/release/gettext/gettext-0.17-11.tar.bz2
2010/10/11 18:34:36 Extracting from
file://D:\LanceDocs\installs/ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f/release/grep/grep-2.6.3-1.tar.bz2
2010/10/11 18:34:36 Extracting from
file://D:\LanceDocs\installs/ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f/release/groff/groff-1.20.1-2.tar.bz2
2010/10/11 18:34:46 Extracting from
file://D:\LanceDocs\installs/ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f/release/gzip/gzip-1.3.12-2.tar.bz2
2010/10/11 18:34:46 Extracting from
file://D:\LanceDocs\installs/ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f/release/ipc-utils/ipc-utils-1.0-1.tar.bz2
2010/10/11 18:34:46 Extracting from
file://D:\LanceDocs\installs/ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f/release/less/less-436-1.tar.bz2
2010/10/11 18:34:46 Extracting from
file://D:\LanceDocs\installs/ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f/release/attr/libattr1/libattr1-2.4.43-1.tar.bz2
2010/10/11 18:34:46 Extracting from
file://D:\LanceDocs\installs/ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f/release/bzip2/libbz2_1/libbz2_1-1.0.5-10.tar.bz2
2010/10/11 18:34:46 Extracting from
file://D:\LanceDocs\installs/ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f/release/gcc4/libgcc1/libgcc1-4.3.4-3.tar.bz2
2010/10/11 18:34:46 Extracting from
file://D:\LanceDocs\installs/ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f/release/gmp/libgmp3/libgmp3-4.3.1-3.tar.bz2
2010/10/11 18:34:46 Extracting from
file://D:\LanceDocs\installs/ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f/release/libiconv/libiconv2/libiconv2-1.13.1-1.tar.bz2
2010/10/11 18:34:47 Extracting from
file://D:\LanceDocs\installs/ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f/release/gettext/libintl8/libintl8-0.17-11.tar.bz2
2010/10/11 18:34:47 Extracting from
file://D:\LanceDocs\installs/ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f/release/xz/liblzma1/liblzma1-4.999.9beta-11.tar.bz2
2010/10/11 18:34:47 Extracting from
file://D:\LanceDocs\installs/ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f/release/ncurses/libncurses10/libncurses10-5.7-18.tar.bz2
2010/10/11 18:34:47 Extracting from
file://D:\LanceDocs\installs/ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f/release/ncurses/libncurses8/libncurses8-5.5-10.tar.bz2
2010/10/11 18:34:47 Extracting from
file://D:\LanceDocs\installs/ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f/release/ncurses/libncurses9/libncurses9-5.7-16.tar.bz2
2010/10/11 18:34:47 Extracting from
file://D:\LanceDocs\installs/ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f/release/pcre/libpcre0/libpcre0-8.02-1.tar.bz2
2010/10/11 18:34:47 Extracting from
file://D:\LanceDocs\installs/ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f/release/popt/libpopt0/libpopt0-1.6.4-4.tar.bz2
2010/10/11 18:34:47 Extracting from
file://D:\LanceDocs\installs/ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f/release/readline/libreadline7/libreadline7-6.0.3-2.tar.bz2
2010/10/11 18:34:47 Extracting from
file://D:\LanceDocs\installs/ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f/release/libsigsegv/libsigsegv2/libsigsegv2-2.8-1.tar.bz2
2010/10/11 18:34:48 Extracting from
file://D:\LanceDocs\installs/ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f/release/gcc4/libstdc++6/libstdc++6-4.3.4-3.tar.bz2
2010/10/11 18:34:48 Extracting from
file://D:\LanceDocs\installs/ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f/release/login/login-1.10-10.tar.bz2
2010/10/11 18:34:48 Extracting from
file://D:\LanceDocs\installs/ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f/release/man/man-1.6f-1.tar.bz2
2010/10/11 18:34:49 Extracting from
file://D:\LanceDocs\installs/ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f/release/rebase/rebase-3.0.1-1.tar.bz2
2010/10/11 18:34:50 Extracting from
file://D:\LanceDocs\installs/ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f/release/run/run-1.1.12-11.tar.bz2
2010/10/11 18:34:50 Extracting from
file://D:\LanceDocs\installs/ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f/release/sed/sed-4.2.1-1.tar.bz2
2010/10/11 18:34:50 Extracting from
file://D:\LanceDocs\installs/ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f/release/tar/tar-1.23-1.tar.bz2
2010/10/11 18:34:51 Extracting from
file://D:\LanceDocs\installs/ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f/release/terminfo/terminfo-5.7_20091114-14.tar.bz2
2010/10/11 18:34:51 Extracting from
file://D:\LanceDocs\installs/ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f/release/terminfo/terminfo0/terminfo0-5.5_20061104-12.tar.bz2
2010/10/11 18:34:52 Extracting from
file://D:\LanceDocs\installs/ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f/release/texinfo/texinfo-4.13-3.tar.bz2
2010/10/11 18:34:53 Extracting from
file://D:\LanceDocs\installs/ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f/release/tzcode/tzcode-2010j-1.tar.bz2
2010/10/11 18:35:00 Extracting from
file://D:\LanceDocs\installs/ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f/release/which/which-2.20-2.tar.bz2
2010/10/11 18:35:00 Extracting from
file://D:\LanceDocs\installs/ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f/release/xz/xz-4.999.9beta-11.tar.bz2
2010/10/11 18:35:01 Extracting from
file://D:\LanceDocs\installs/ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f/release/zlib/zlib0/zlib0-1.2.5-1.tar.bz2
2010/10/11 18:35:01 Extracting from
file://D:\LanceDocs\installs/ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f/release/_update-info-dir/_update-info-dir-00923-1.tar.bz2
2010/10/11 18:35:01 Changing gid back to original
2010/10/11 18:35:01 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile
/etc/postinstall/000-cygwin-post-install.sh
2010/10/11 18:35:31 abnormal exit: exit code=128
2010/10/11 18:35:31 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile
/etc/postinstall/passwd-grp.sh
2010/10/11 18:35:58 abnormal exit: exit code=128
2010/10/11 18:35:58 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile
/etc/postinstall/terminfo0.sh
2010/10/11 18:36:25 abnormal exit: exit code=128
2010/10/11 18:36:25 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile
/etc/postinstall/update-info-dir.sh
2010/10/11 18:36:53 abnormal exit: exit code=128
2010/10/11 18:36:53 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile
/etc/postinstall/coreutils.sh
2010/10/11 18:37:19 abnormal exit: exit code=128
2010/10/11 18:37:19 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile
/etc/postinstall/terminfo.sh
2010/10/11 18:37:45 abnormal exit: exit code=128
2010/10/11 18:37:45 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile
/etc/postinstall/bash.sh
2010/10/11 18:38:13 abnormal exit: exit code=128
2010/10/11 18:38:13 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile
/etc/postinstall/base-files-profile.sh
2010/10/11 18:38:40 abnormal exit: exit code=128
2010/10/11 18:38:40 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile
/etc/postinstall/base-files-mketc.sh
2010/10/11 18:39:08 abnormal exit: exit code=128
2010/10/11 18:39:08 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile
/etc/postinstall/man.sh
2010/10/11 18:39:35 abnormal exit: exit code=128
2010/10/11 18:39:35 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile
/etc/postinstall/000-cygwin-post-install.sh
2010/10/11 18:40:03 abnormal exit: exit code=128
2010/10/11 18:40:03 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile
/etc/postinstall/base-files-mketc.sh
2010/10/11 18:40:30 abnormal exit: exit code=128
2010/10/11 18:40:30 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile
/etc/postinstall/base-files-profile.sh
2010/10/11 18:40:57 abnormal exit: exit code=128
2010/10/11 18:40:57 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile
/etc/postinstall/bash.sh
2010/10/11 18:41:24 abnormal exit: exit code=128
2010/10/11 18:41:24 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile
/etc/postinstall/coreutils.sh
2010/10/11 18:41:52 abnormal exit: exit code=128
2010/10/11 18:41:52 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile
/etc/postinstall/man.sh
2010/10/11 18:42:18 abnormal exit: exit code=128
2010/10/11 18:42:18 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile
/etc/postinstall/passwd-grp.sh
2010/10/11 18:42:44 abnormal exit: exit code=128
2010/10/11 18:42:44 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile
/etc/postinstall/terminfo.sh
2010/10/11 18:43:12 abnormal exit: exit code=128
2010/10/11 18:43:12 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile
/etc/postinstall/terminfo0.sh
2010/10/11 18:43:39 abnormal exit: exit code=128
2010/10/11 18:43:39 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile
/etc/postinstall/update-info-dir.sh
2010/10/11 18:44:05 abnormal exit: exit code=128
2010/10/11 18:44:05 Changing gid to Administrators
2010/10/11 18:46:42 note: Installation Complete
2010/10/11 18:46:42 Ending cygwin install
-----------------
I've seen this discussed on the mailing lists, but the only advice I
saw was these points from Larry Hall on 20100429:
> ? ?1. The existence of another (often old) cygwin1.dll. ?Find it. ?Remove it.
> ? ?2.?http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#BLODA. ?Remove BLODA.
> ? ?3. Possibly fork failures. ?Install the rebase package and run rebaseall after reading the README in /usr/share/doc/Cygwin.

1. I removed all old versions of cygwin.
2. I have nothing in BLODA.
3. I can't even run rebaseall (it says "/usr/bin/ash: /bin/rebaseball:
not found")

Please let me know if I need to provide more information.

Lance Finney

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