Re: cygwin installation fails in Windows 10 when running with --quite-mode

[Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca>]

On 2017-12-18 11:50, Arkady wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 7:41 PM, Arkady wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 7:27 PM, Arkady wrote:
>>> I am trying to do:
>>> setup-x86_64.exe -q -p wget -v
>>> The installation fails with the last line "Changing gid to
>>> Administrators" and a small dialog box "setup-x86_64.exe" has stopped
>>> working A problem caused the program to stop working correctly..."
>>> I tried
>>> setup-x86_64.exe -q -p wget -v -B
>>> and
>>> setup-x86_64.exe -q -p wget -v -B -R C:\Windows\Temp
>>> The same result - the setup fails
>>> The interactive GUI installation works fine.
>>> The quite mode fails to install/update Cygwin on the machin where it
>>> is already installed.
>>> What am I missing?> Reproduced again with Autounattend.xml
>> I tried again on the clean Windows VM
>> setup-x86_64.exe -q -B -R C:\Users\user\Downloads -s
>> http://cygwin/mirror/constant.com
>> After that I tried
>> setup-x86_64.exe -q -B -R C:\Users\user\Downloads -s
>> http://cygwin/mirror/constant.com -p wget,screen
>> Both worked. Looks like my bad
> My goal is to prepare a Windows machine with Cygwin installed. I am
> trying to script the process.
> I have the following section the Autounattend.xml file
>                 <SynchronousCommand wcm:action="add">
>                     <CommandLine>cmd.exe /c
> C:\Windows\Temp\setup-x86.exe -q -R C:\cygwin -l C:\Windows\Temp
> --packages "wget,zip,screen" -s
> http://cygwin.mirror.constant.com</CommandLine>
>                     <Description>Install Cygwin</Description>
>                     <Order>99</Order>
>                     <RequiresUserInput>true</RequiresUserInput>
>                 </SynchronousCommand>
> The whole file is
> https://github.com/larytet/auto-win/blob/master/autounattend/packer-floppy-win10/Autounattend.xml
> The installation fails with the same "setu-x86.exe has stopped
> working". I do not see output, but I bet that this is the same
> "Changing gid to
> Administrators" problem.
> I suspect that this is something related to running as an
> Administrator or System.
> I will greatly appreciate any tip.

Suggest the first step in your process should be to download
	https://cygwin.com/setup-x86.exe
as you will get warnings if setup .exe and .ini versions mismatch (setup just
changed again).

Use -B to install for current user only, or run under admin account and use -W
to wait for elevated child,
You could add -v to get more info in ROOT/var/log/setup.log (appended summaries)
and .../setup.log.full (last run details).

You might want to add -g to be able to rerun and keep versions in old installs
upgraded in sync with new installs, as Cygwin does rolling releases and supports
only current releases; you might also need this for initial installs to get base
packages: it's been a long time since I tried any initial installs.

You should not need to run cmd unless you want to run a bat[ch] or c[om]m[an]d
script.

-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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