Re: Windows Server 2008 64-bit setup.exe/bash problem - Amazon Cloud

[Ernest Mueller <Ernest dot Mueller at ni dot com>]

I promise this is not me posting under another name!  Well, it's good to
hear someone else is having this exact problem too at least.  Michael, I
haven't found any solution to this yet.

Ernest
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cygwin-owner@cygwin.com wrote on 06/30/2010 08:38:46 AM:

> I am unable to install Cygwin on a Windows Datacenter 2008 server
> image running in the Amazon Web Services cloud.
>
> The install process fails at the execution of the post install
> scripts with a bash segmentation fault and core dump. The scripts
> "complete" but do not actually do anything. Attempting to run them
> after the install produces the same result, script exit but no
> actions executed.
>
> Running the commands in the script one at a time from a shell window
> works, but this is not acceptable, especially for running the ssh
> host configuration script !!
>
> Things tried so far: running the setup script in compatibility
> modes, running the scripts after the install completes, running the
> scripts in bash or sh from the command line. Nothing makes any
> difference, the scripts fail to do the work required.
>
> This seems to be the same as a problem reported already this month,
> with the same Subject line. However I am opening this new thread, as
> Cygwin is 100% required on this server in our environment in order
> to enable Oracle Grid Control 11g to accept agent data from this server.
>
> This is a production level server running Oracle applications and I
> need urgent HELP solving this Cygwin install failure.


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