Cygwin default installation: command not found‏

Cygwin default installation: command not found‏

[Matthijs Nescio]

Hi,
 
Cygwin is terrific software. I use it all the time. However, I found a 
strange installation problem that I want to share with you. I have a 
brand new image of WinXP on my system. This image is company provided. I
 got it only this morning and I installed some software since; 
notepad++, google earth, skype etc.
 
When downloading cygwin by its install program, it stalled. I tried 
again a few times. Eventually, Cygwin got installed. When I typed simple
 commands like ls or cp, the standard answer of the shell would be 
"command not found". I could solve it by creating a file named profile 
in C:\cygwin\etc with contents
 
PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:.:$PATH"
 
Perhaps something went wrong in the beta release? Note that this problem
 reproduces very well on my system, so I want to share it with you. I 
have seen lots of discouraging of posting messages on the cygwin pages. 
However, I could not find this issue anywhere on the internet. If you 
think this message is not smart or otherwise undesired, please ignore.

Thank you, kind regards, Matthijs. 		 	   		  
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Re: Cygwin default installation: command not found‏

[Morgan Gangwere]

On 4/6/2010 6:34 AM, Matthijs Nescio wrote:
[snip]
> When downloading cygwin by its install program, it stalled. I tried
> again a few times. Eventually, Cygwin got installed. When I typed simple
>   commands like ls or cp, the standard answer of the shell would be
> "command not found". I could solve it by creating a file named profile
> in C:\cygwin\etc with contents

I'd assume you started with running "C:\Cygwin\Cygwin.bat"?

Out Of Curiosity, do you have the setup log from /var/log/setup.log?

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 >> Why?
 > Because it breaks the logical flow of conversation, plus makes 
messages unreadable.
 >>> Top-Posting is evil.

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Re: Cygwin default installation: command not found‏

[Morgan Gangwere]

On 4/6/2010 6:38 AM, Morgan Gangwere wrote:
[snip-snip]

An Aside: avoid sending personal messages; We'll be civil just as long 
as you try :)

 > I start cygwin from the bat file. I have a button for it in the Quick 
launch toolbar, but I verified that it calls the bat file. If I rename 
the profile file to something else, the problem emerges again upon 
starting cygwin in the default way.

I've looked through the logfiles that Mr. Nescio has provided and found 
a few lines that look messed up:

There are quite a few instances of this
--------8<------ setup.log.full -----%<--------
2010/04/06 13:29:22 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile 
/etc/postinstall/bash.sh
       3 [main] bash 3936 C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - 
couldn't allocate heap, Win32 error 487, base 0x6D0000, top 0x730000, 
reserve_size 389120, allocsize 393216, page_const 4096
       2 [main] bash 3624 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp 
before initialization, retry 0, exit code 0x100, errno 11
       2 [main] bash 628 C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - 
couldn't allocate heap, Win32 error 487, base 0x6D0000, top 0x730000, 
reserve_size 389120, allocsize 393216, page_const 4096
2163143 [main] bash 3624 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp 
before initialization, retry 0, exit code 0x100, errno 11
       3 [main] bash 2132 C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - 
couldn't allocate heap, Win32 error 487, base 0x6D0000, top 0x730000, 
reserve_size 389120, allocsize 393216, page_const 4096
5358251 [main] bash 3624 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp 
before initialization, retry 0, exit code 0x100, errno 11
       3 [main] bash 2732 C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - 
couldn't allocate heap, Win32 error 487, base 0x6D0000, top 0x730000, 
reserve_size 389120, allocsize 393216, page_const 4096
10524937 [main] bash 3624 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp 
before initialization, retry 0, exit code 0x100, errno 11
       3 [main] bash 324 C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - 
couldn't allocate heap, Win32 error 487, base 0x6D0000, top 0x730000, 
reserve_size 389120, allocsize 393216, page_const 4096
19711064 [main] bash 3624 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp 
before initialization, retry 0, exit code 0x100, errno 11
/etc/postinstall/bash.sh: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
2010/04/06 13:29:43 abnormal exit: exit code=128
------------------%<------------------------------

And several instances of this
---------------setup.log -------------------------

2010/04/06 13:24:23 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile 
/etc/postinstall/bash.sh
2010/04/06 13:24:44 abnormal exit: exit code=128
--------------------------------------------------


What doesnt make sense is that the method of failure is odd because this 
points to a bug in bash (Region stuff?)

McAffee isnt there to complain, so its proabably not something on listings.

This also pinged my curiosity in setup.log:

2010/04/06 13:27:37 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/extrakeys) 
failed 2 No such file or directory
2010/04/06 13:27:37 io_stream_cygfile: 
fopen(/etc/setup/chooser_window_settings) failed 2 No such file or directory

I wonder if this is UAC getting in the way?

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Morgan Gangwere

 >> Why?
 > Because it breaks the logical flow of conversation, plus makes 
messages unreadable.
 >>> Top-Posting is evil.

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Re: Cygwin default installation: command not found‏

[Dave Korn]

On 06/04/2010 14:56, Morgan Gangwere wrote:
> On 4/6/2010 6:38 AM, Morgan Gangwere wrote:

> I've looked through the logfiles that Mr. Nescio has provided and found
> a few lines that look messed up:
> 
> There are quite a few instances of this
> --------8<------ setup.log.full -----%<--------
> 2010/04/06 13:29:22 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile
> /etc/postinstall/bash.sh
>       3 [main] bash 3936 C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error -
> couldn't allocate heap, Win32 error 487, base 0x6D0000, top 0x730000,
> reserve_size 389120, allocsize 393216, page_const 4096
>       2 [main] bash 3624 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp
> before initialization, retry 0, exit code 0x100, errno 11

  Right, so this is what caused the postinstall scripts to fail, and explains
why the user's profile files weren't created.

> What doesnt make sense is that the method of failure is odd because this
> points to a bug in bash (Region stuff?)
> 
> McAffee isnt there to complain, so its proabably not something on listings.

  I wonder if DEP is enabled on this machine?  That can cause those kinds of
massive failures.  Matthijs, can you try disabling DEP in "system
properties->advanced->performance options" (see
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/cc700810.aspx for info) and then
run setup.exe again, only in "install from local directory" mode; set
everything to reinstall on the package chooser screen and see if it completes
successfully this time?

> This also pinged my curiosity in setup.log:
> 
> 2010/04/06 13:27:37 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/extrakeys)
> failed 2 No such file or directory
> 2010/04/06 13:27:37 io_stream_cygfile:
> fopen(/etc/setup/chooser_window_settings) failed 2 No such file or
> directory
> 
> I wonder if this is UAC getting in the way?

  Don't see any reason to assume it's anything other than that those files
genuinely didn't exist.  First run on a fresh installation and all that.

    cheers,
      DaveK


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Re: Cygwin default installation: command not found‏

[Morgan Gangwere]

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Dave Korn
<dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 06/04/2010 14:56, Morgan Gangwere wrote:
>> On 4/6/2010 6:38 AM, Morgan Gangwere wrote:
>
>> I've looked through the logfiles that Mr. Nescio has provided and found
>> a few lines that look messed up:
>>
>> There are quite a few instances of this
>> --------8<------ setup.log.full -----%<--------
>> 2010/04/06 13:29:22 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile
>> /etc/postinstall/bash.sh
>>       3 [main] bash 3936 C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error -
>> couldn't allocate heap, Win32 error 487, base 0x6D0000, top 0x730000,
>> reserve_size 389120, allocsize 393216, page_const 4096
>>       2 [main] bash 3624 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp
>> before initialization, retry 0, exit code 0x100, errno 11
>
>  Right, so this is what caused the postinstall scripts to fail, and explains
> why the user's profile files weren't created.


>> What doesnt make sense is that the method of failure is odd because this
>> points to a bug in bash (Region stuff?)
>>
>> McAffee isnt there to complain, so its proabably not something on listings.
>
>  I wonder if DEP is enabled on this machine?  That can cause those kinds of
> massive failures.  Matthijs, can you try disabling DEP in "system
> properties->advanced->performance options" (see
> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/cc700810.aspx for info) and then
> run setup.exe again, only in "install from local directory" mode; set
> everything to reinstall on the package chooser screen and see if it completes
> successfully this time?

Sounds like hardware DEP, or UAC virtualization.

>> This also pinged my curiosity in setup.log:
>>
>> 2010/04/06 13:27:37 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/extrakeys)
>> failed 2 No such file or directory
>> 2010/04/06 13:27:37 io_stream_cygfile:
>> fopen(/etc/setup/chooser_window_settings) failed 2 No such file or
>> directory
>>
>> I wonder if this is UAC getting in the way?
>
>  Don't see any reason to assume it's anything other than that those files
> genuinely didn't exist.  First run on a fresh installation and all that.

Well here's an interesting thing I found:

I can write an application in say VS08, C app that opens a file in its
current directory, writes to it and then dumps out the file. it will
suceed, but the file will *never* exist in its current directory if it
is under UAC Virtualization. You can search long and hard, it *wont*
exist (except in Shadow Files)

The application will think it exists. You can open it as many times as
you want and close it even more and you'll never get an error. I would
check the status of UAC at that point and see what is really
happening.

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