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 Oh, and another thing occurred to me:

Michel Wozniak wrote:

> So, I cleaned all the entries you asked from the user and system PATH
> env, and I relaunched an installation.
> 
> The result is the same.

  Another question we should try and answer:

> If you launch it manually, you get :
>   C:\cygfiles>C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c /etc/postinstall/update-info-dir.sh
>   /cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin/bash: /etc/postinstall/update-info-dir.sh: No
> such file or directory

  How come bash.exe is clearly existing in the bin dir here ^^^^

> The cygcheck -s -r -v gives :
> 
> Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics
> Current System Time: Thu Feb 19 13:12:56 2009

> C:\cygwin/bin  /usr/bin   system  binmode

> Not Found: bash
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

.... but not here ...

> bash                 3.2.48-21

.... but it thinks the package is there ?  That's strange; what's actually in
the bin dir?  Were there any errors in setup.log when it unpacked bash?

  Maybe if you run through setup twice, the first time round get it to do
absolutely nothing except reinstall bash, then try again once bash is working
with a reinstall-on-top as described in the last post.

    cheers,
      DaveK

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