Cygwin 1.7.1 install halting on Windows 7

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 01/04/2010 02:21 PM, Durwin wrote:
>> On 01/02/2010 12:24 PM, Durwin wrote:
>>> I have just received an Alienware laptop with Windows7.  I downloaded
>>> and ran the current setup from website.  The install process will stop
>>> at various stages, not always the same place.  By stop, I mean it looks
>>> as if it is working, but it never proceeds past that point.  I believe
>>> it does all the install stages, but will stop at different places after
>>> the install.
>>>
>>> A few times the install completed.  When testing those times, I would
>>> run bash from Windows command line (just as the .bat file does).  Once I
>>> got some memory error I can't recall.  The rest of the times I get the
>>> Cygwin console opening, but goes away imediately without every
>>> displaying a prompt.  All through this, not one error message.
>>
>> In this case, you want to start a Windows command prompt and run
>> c:\cygwin\cygwin.bat from there.  This will keep the command prompt
>> window open so you can see any complaint.
>
> I had performed this.  I started cmd and cd'ed to c:\cygwin.  I ran the
> cygwin.bat and also manually entered bash.exe --login -i as in the bat
> file.  Under this circumstance, I get nothing.  No window, no error.  It
> simply returns a new prompt.  When I run the shortcut the installation
> created, I do get a Cygwin window, but this is the one which disapears
> never showing a prompt.  The shortcut is configured to run as
> administrator.  Path was added pointing to c:\cygwin\bin.
>
> This last install I tried, I deleted the cygwin directory as well as the
> download.  I also selected a different site.  And I accepted the default
> packages (I did not choose any more to install).  This install completed
> without a problem, but still gives me the same problem (no cygwin
> console).

OK, so my WAG here is that some needed DLL is not being installed or
installed properly.  Try 'c:\cygwin\bin\cygcheck.exe c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe'.
That should give you a list of all the dependent DLLs and tell you which
ones are missing.  You want to reinstall the packages that provide those
(see <http://cygwin.com/packages/> to find the packages) and/or check
'/var/log/setup.log/full' for any related complaints.  Assuming that's not the
resolution, I'd recommend following up with the output of 'cygcheck -s -r -v'
as requested by <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>.  Please *attach* the
cygcheck results, don't include them in the body of your reply.  The output
from cygcheck would help avoid some future WAGs, at least on my part. ;-)

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