A vexing installation problem

[Christopher Faylor]

On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 11:14:51PM -0800, David Hinds wrote:
>A couple days ago, I tried to update a quite old cygwin installation
>on a Windows XP SP2 box to the latest (1.5.12-1).  After the update,
>all Cygwin programs exit immediately and silently.  I've tried
>scrubbing the Windows registry of anything with a "Cyg" in it,
>deleting the Cygwin tree, and reinstalling from scratch, with the same
>result.  Running "strace" on any Cygwin program shows apparently
>normal output (as far as I can tell) up to a point; and then zippo.
>
>For example, here's the end of 'strace ls':
>
>  149   42033 [main] ls 4072 pwdgrp::load: /etc/group
>  140   42173 [main] ls 4072 pwdgrp::load: strange path_conv problem
>  140   42313 [main] ls 4072 pwdgrp::load: /etc/group load failed
>  152   42465 [main] ls 4072 __cygwin_lock_lock: threadcount 1.  not locking
>  151   42616 [main] ls 4072 __cygwin_lock_unlock: threadcount 1.  not unlocking
>  148   42764 [main] ls 4072 pwdgrp::read_group: Completing /etc/group: mkpasswd:S-1-5-21-1844237615-725345543-682003330-513:401:dhinds
>  442   43206 [main] ls 4072 cygheap_user::ontherange: what 2, pw 0x10011018
>  147   43353 [main] ls 4072 cygheap_user::ontherange: HOME is already in the environment /cygdrive/h
>  684   44037 [main] ls 4072 sigproc_init: process/signal handling enabled(1)
>  176   44213 [main] ls 4072 __cygwin_lock_lock: threadcount 1.  not locking
>  167   44380 [main] ls 4072 __cygwin_lock_unlock: threadcount 1.  not unlocking
>
>Some commands get as far as executing build_argv().  I'm not sure what
>to do next: has anyone seen anything like this before?  Or, can anyone
>suggest how to go about debugging this?

Since this strace is bound to be pretty small, please send the complete strace
here for perusal.

cgf

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