Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <46566A3075DDD311969100E0811031EC066AB28B@euclid.dessci> From: Adam Heinz To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: Cant install Cygwin Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 10:43:41 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-IsSubscribed: yes Hello JJ, I recently had the same issue. I am building a repository on an intranet server from which all employees will install Cygwin. A few days ago, I downloaded an older version of a package that I already had installed, then poked around in setup.ini to see how Cygwin managed which packages were current or previous, etcetera. Shortly thereafter, a new installation of Cygwin failed in exactly the manner you describe. (If you echo $PATH, you will see that the Cygwin paths normally prepended to the Windows path are absent.) I can't tell you exactly what caused the problem (although setup.ini munging seems likely), but after I blew away my repository and repopulated it, Cygwin installs worked properly again. Adam -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/