From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
To: "KAVALAGIOS Panagiotis (EEAS-EXT)"
<Panagiotis.KAVALAGIOS@ext.eeas.europa.eu>,
cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Home directory was not created
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2021 14:55:35 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1097399271.20210303145535@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0d21a331911b4733a5e638a7c72d7ee2@BELBRU-EXMP101.eeas.europa.eu>
Greetings, KAVALAGIOS Panagiotis (EEAS-EXT)!
>> All postinstall steps failed because of BLODA or installation path:
>>
>> 2021/02/09 17:48:06 running: C:\Program Files\Cygwin\bin\dash.exe
>> "/etc/postinstall/0p_000_autorebase.dash"
>> 0 [main] dash (2296) shared_info::initialize: size of shared memory region
>> changed from 49080 to 40888
>> 2021/02/09 17:48:20 abnormal exit: exit code=-1073741819 ...
>>
>> Installing under Program\ Files causes issues because of space in path names
>> and BLODA-like AV protections on those paths.
> The installation is performed by powershell script that runs with the super
> admin (system user/nt authority) from local repository that normally
> bypasses all those kind of AV restrictions. I start it from the Cygwin icon
> that runs mintty under the hood. I don't know who took those 8KB from the
> script's shared memory, but indeed it looks like a BLODA interference. I
> will ask the package to be re-installed.
In such (administrative install) case, the Cygwin user directories should be
redirected, f.e. to the user's profile, IMO.
See nsswitch.conf for examples and possible options of such redirection.
> We are running Cygwin from "C:\Program Files" for years without issue.
Coincidence, I'm sure.
> A space in the directory name is a very supported character for Unix and
> Unix-like systems as well.
Except script writers rarely account for that. Unfortunately.
--
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Wednesday, March 3, 2021 14:52:49
Sorry for my terrible english...
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-01 15:33 KAVALAGIOS Panagiotis (EEAS-EXT)
2021-03-01 17:37 ` Brian Inglis
[not found] ` <24934718098a4d26a65b68ef62f3b46e@BELBRU-EXMP101.eeas.europa.eu>
2021-03-02 18:56 ` Brian Inglis
2021-03-03 11:22 ` KAVALAGIOS Panagiotis (EEAS-EXT)
2021-03-03 11:55 ` Andrey Repin [this message]
2021-03-03 12:59 ` KAVALAGIOS Panagiotis (EEAS-EXT)
2021-03-03 11:57 ` Thomas Wolff
2021-03-03 12:43 ` KAVALAGIOS Panagiotis (EEAS-EXT)
2021-03-03 12:58 ` Thomas Wolff
2021-03-03 13:07 ` KAVALAGIOS Panagiotis (EEAS-EXT)
2021-03-03 17:07 ` Brian Inglis
2021-03-05 21:22 ` Kraja, Aldi
2021-03-05 21:52 ` remove my email aldi@wustl.edu from the cygwin@cygwin.com email list Kraja, Aldi
2021-03-06 1:38 ` Help on Unsubscribing Brian Inglis
2021-03-05 10:17 ` Home directory was not created KAVALAGIOS Panagiotis (EEAS-EXT)
2021-03-05 18:50 ` Brian Inglis
2021-03-02 17:27 ` Adam Dinwoodie
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