From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18930 invoked by alias); 6 Jan 2020 01:02:59 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 18902 invoked by uid 89); 6 Jan 2020 01:02:58 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=H*r:4.84_2, H*UA:16.0, H*x:16.0, abnormal X-HELO: vm100.cs.stir.ac.uk Received: from vm100.cs.stir.ac.uk (HELO vm100.cs.stir.ac.uk) (139.153.255.100) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 06 Jan 2020 01:02:56 +0000 Received: from sixtus.plus.com ([31.125.104.69] helo=Barnacle) by vm100.cs.stir.ac.uk with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ioGnD-0005LX-W8 for cygwin@cygwin.com; Mon, 06 Jan 2020 01:02:52 +0000 From: "Ken Turner" To: Subject: Cygwin 3.1.X causes fatal errors Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2020 01:02:00 -0000 Message-ID: <000001d5c42d$06966670$13c33350$@cs.stir.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2020-01/txt/msg00043.txt.bz2 I have Windows 10 64-bit, but am using the 32-bit version of Cygwin for historical reasons. I seem to have the same problem noted in https://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin@cygwin.com/msg162929.html. That is, installation of Cygwin 3.1.X does not work properly. The setup log shows (in part): 2020/01/06 00:27:10 Starting cygwin install, version 2.900 ... 2020/01/06 00:27:28 Augmented Transaction List: 2020/01/06 00:27:28 0 install cygwin 3.1.2-1 2020/01/06 00:27:28 1 erase cygwin 3.0.7-1 2020/01/06 00:27:31 Uninstalling cygwin 2020/01/06 00:27:31 Extracting from file://D:\Library\CygWin/http%3a%2f%2fftp.snt.utwente.nl%2fpub%2fsoftware%2f cygwin%2f/x86/release/cygwin/cygwin-3.1.2-1.tar.xz ... 2020/01/06 00:28:26 running: C:\\bin\dash.exe "/etc/postinstall/0p_000_autorebase.dash" 2020/01/06 00:28:27 abnormal exit: exit code=-1073741819 2020/01/06 00:28:27 running: C:\\bin\dash.exe "/etc/postinstall/0p_update-info-dir.dash" 2020/01/06 00:28:27 abnormal exit: exit code=-1073741819 2020/01/06 00:28:27 running: C:\\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/zp_desktop-file-utils.sh" 2020/01/06 00:28:27 abnormal exit: exit code=256 2020/01/06 00:28:27 running: C:\\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/zp_fontconfig_cache_1.sh" 2020/01/06 00:28:27 abnormal exit: exit code=256 2020/01/06 00:28:27 running: C:\\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/zp_glib2.0.sh" 2020/01/06 00:28:27 abnormal exit: exit code=256 2020/01/06 00:28:27 running: C:\\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/zp_man-db.sh" 2020/01/06 00:28:28 abnormal exit: exit code=256 2020/01/06 00:28:28 running: C:\\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/zp_shared-mime-info.sh" 2020/01/06 00:28:28 abnormal exit: exit code=256 Following this I can no longer run shells nor do a rebase: C:\bin\dash.exe: *** fatal error - add_item ("\??\C:", "/", ...) failed, errno 22 C:\bin\rebase.exe: *** fatal error - add_item ("\??\C:", "/", ...) failed, errno 22 I am therefore forced to go back to Cygwin 3.0.7-1 (which continues to work OK). Any thoughts? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple