misc basic installation problems with cygwin

misc basic installation problems with cygwin

[Werner Beck]

Hi - I've seen this twice now, and I can't find a hint in the FAQ, and
searching the newsgroups available to me didn't turn up something that
seemed related, so I hope this list is appropriate for asking such
questions ... if not, I would appreciate a pointer to "the right thing
to do".

On WinXP Pro, the installation leaves all file permissions to
"---------+".  Is that the way it should be - probably not ??  Anyway,
nothing worked.

After I opened file permissions a little and re-ran the postinstall
scripts, some things started working.

However, there are still many problems.

Like, the terminal type 'cygwin' is unknown.

Or, the 'man' command fails with:

groff: can't find `DESC' file

groff:fatal error: invalid device `ascii'

Is there some documentation that I've just not stumbled across that
would tell me what I forgot, or did incorrectly ?

Thanks,
Werner




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RE: misc basic installation problems with cygwin

[Hannu E K Nevalainen]

> From: Werner Beck
> Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2003 10:09 AM
>
> Hi - I've seen this twice now, and I can't find a hint in the FAQ, and
> searching the newsgroups available to me didn't turn up something that
> seemed related, so I hope this list is appropriate for asking such
> questions ... if not, I would appreciate a pointer to "the right thing
> to do".
>
> On WinXP Pro, the installation leaves all file permissions to
> "---------+".  Is that the way it should be - probably not ??  Anyway,
> nothing worked.
>
> After I opened file permissions a little and re-ran the postinstall
> scripts, some things started working.

 Sorry for beeing vague, but I have a recollection of seeing a posting by
Igor, or maybe Corinna, about creating the cygwin root folder with some
specific permissions PRIOR to running setup.exe a while back...
 Why don't you try to google on
	"site:cygwin.com +setup +perm +before +install +Igor"
or some such, it might turn up that particular posting... I wonder if it
wasn't Igor who wrote about it.

/Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE - 59?16.37'N, 17?12.60'E
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misc basic installation problems with cygwin

[Werner Beck]

Hi - I've seen this twice now, and I can't find a hint in the FAQ, and searching the newsgroups available to me didn't turn up something that seemed related, so I hope this list is appropriate for asking such questions ... if not, I would appreciate a pointer to "the right thing to do".

On WinXP Pro, the installation leaves all file permissions to "---------+".  Is that the way it should be - probably not ??  Anyway, nothing worked.

After I opened file permissions a little and re-ran the postinstall scripts, some things started working.

However, there are still many problems.

Like, the terminal type 'cygwin' is unknown.

Or, the 'man' command fails with:

groff: can't find `DESC' file

groff:fatal error: invalid device `ascii'

Is there some documentation that I've just not stumbled across that would tell me what I forgot, or did incorrectly ?

Thanks,
Werner

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