installation problem: no /etc/profile

["Mark Peloquin" <markpeloquin at gmail dot com>]

I recently installed cygwin with some problems.  This is the fourth
installation of Windows where I have installed cygwin, and this has
happened with this Windows installation twice now.  I don't think it's
a fluke.  My guess is that it is only noticeable for new
installations.

I was first greeted by a shell prompt like this: 'bash-3.2$'

I notice there is no '/etc/profile', nor are there any home
directories.  Upon investigating /var/log/setup.log.full, I came
across this:

2007/02/18 01:18:51 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c /etc/postinstall/aalib.sh
/usr/bin/bash: /etc/postinstall/aalib.sh: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: No
such file or directory
2007/02/18 01:18:55 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c
/etc/postinstall/autoconf.sh
/usr/bin/bash: /etc/postinstall/autoconf.sh: No such file or directory
2007/02/18 01:18:58 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c
/etc/postinstall/autoconf2.1.sh
install-info: No such file or directory for gzip.exe -cd
</usr/share/info/autoconf2.13.info.gz
2007/02/18 01:19:00 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c
/etc/postinstall/autoconf2.5.sh
install-info: No such file or directory for gzip.exe -cd
</usr/share/info/autoconf2.61.info.gz
install-info: No such file or directory for gzip.exe -cd
</usr/share/info/standards.info.gz
2007/02/18 01:19:07 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c
/etc/postinstall/automake.sh
/usr/bin/bash: /etc/postinstall/automake.sh: /bin/sh: bad interpreter:
No such file or directory
2007/02/18 01:19:07 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c
/etc/postinstall/automake1.10.sh
/usr/bin/bash: /etc/postinstall/automake1.10.sh: /bin/sh: bad
interpreter: No such file or directory
2007/02/18 01:19:08 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c
/etc/postinstall/automake1.4.sh
/usr/bin/bash: /etc/postinstall/automake1.4.sh: /bin/sh: bad
interpreter: No such file or directory
2007/02/18 01:19:09 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c
/etc/postinstall/automake1.5.sh
/usr/bin/bash: /etc/postinstall/automake1.5.sh: /bin/sh: bad
interpreter: No such file or directory
2007/02/18 01:19:10 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c
/etc/postinstall/automake1.6.sh
/usr/bin/bash: /etc/postinstall/automake1.6.sh: /bin/sh: bad
interpreter: No such file or directory
2007/02/18 01:19:12 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c
/etc/postinstall/automake1.7.sh
/usr/bin/bash: /etc/postinstall/automake1.7.sh: /bin/sh: bad
interpreter: No such file or directory
2007/02/18 01:19:12 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c
/etc/postinstall/automake1.8.sh
/usr/bin/bash: /etc/postinstall/automake1.8.sh: /bin/sh: bad
interpreter: No such file or directory
2007/02/18 01:19:14 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c
/etc/postinstall/automake1.9.sh
/usr/bin/bash: /etc/postinstall/automake1.9.sh: /bin/sh: bad
interpreter: No such file or directory
2007/02/18 01:19:14 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c
/etc/postinstall/base-files-mketc.sh
/usr/bin/bash: /etc/postinstall/base-files-mketc.sh: /bin/sh: bad
interpreter: No such file or directory
2007/02/18 01:19:15 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c
/etc/postinstall/base-files-profile.sh
/usr/bin/bash: /etc/postinstall/base-files-profile.sh: /bin/sh: bad
interpreter: No such file or directory
2007/02/18 01:19:15 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c /etc/postinstall/bash.sh

So to fix my problem, I typed this:
$ export PATH=/bin:/usr/bin
$ cd /etc/postinstall
$ ./base-files-profile.sh.done

This appeared to fix the problem without any errors (after starting
another login shell), but to be certain I re-ran all the scripts above
that failed.  I am hosting the relevant files here for all who are
interested:

http://www.itlabs.umn.edu/~pelo0036/cygwin/cygcheck.txt.bz2 (6 kB)
http://www.itlabs.umn.edu/~pelo0036/cygwin/setup.log.bz2 (10 kB)
http://www.itlabs.umn.edu/~pelo0036/cygwin/setup.log.full.bz2 (328 kB)

Mark

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