Re: errors trying to install cygwin on vista

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Dec  9 21:22, Mike Knope wrote:
> OK.  I've looked thru the archives and I've even tried installing as the 
> "true" Administrator and all I get are errors either saying that sed.exe 
> stopped working when I try to run setup on Vista, or I get 
> install-info.exe stopped working if I try to reinstall after the sed 
> fail.  I even tried putting the snapshots copy of cygwin1.dll into the 
> bin dir and that does nothing.  I also sometimes see an error that says 
> cygwin1.dll could not be found.  I'm confused.  In looking at the 
> archives it appears as tho folks may have gotten cygwin to run on Vista 
> but I sure can't.  I have the RTM copy from MS since I was a beta 
> tester.  Please help.

Here's the problem: It works for me using the latest Cygwin version
1.5.22 or a recent snapshot.

UAC (User Access Control) is really playing hell with us.  If you run
install as admin without explicitely using the "Run as administrator"
facility, you will run into problems when trying to create certain
stuff.  The first shell invocation should be running under "Run as
administrator", otherwise scripts go wrong.  It's really not a smooth
experience.  Every day I learn something new about Vista, which has to
result in Cygwin changes in the long run.  

Another problem:  Given how long Vista is available, there aren't
a lot of users so far, which could help.


Corinna

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