setup.exe a mystery

[Ken Brown]

On 10/22/2015 6:28 AM, Tom Axehult wrote:
> I lost bash weeks ago and hence cygwin which I used to start from Cywin.bat as
> administrator, by the well known
> bash --login -i
> For reasons beyond me, I can run Xemacs and reach bash functionality from
> (Tools/shell command) and thus produce cygcheck.
> Using setup for updating Cygwin a warning is issued:
> Package: _/_update-info-dir
>      update-info-dir.sh exit code -6
> Package: _/Unknown package
>      cygutils.sh exit code -6
>      dejavu-fonts.sh exit code -6
>      hicolor-icon-theme.sh exit code -6
>      libtirpc.sh exit code -6
>      texlive-collection-basic.sh exit code -6
>      texlive-collection-latex.sh exit code -6
>      texlive-collection-mathextra.sh exit code -6
>      WindowMaker.sh exit code -6
>      xfig.sh exit code -6
>      xinit.sh exit code -6
>      xorg-server.sh exit code -6
>      xorg-x11-fonts-Type1.sh exit code -6
>      xpdf.sh exit code -6

Without bash, the postinstall scripts can't run.

> In the attached cygcheck the setup failure turns up as 'incomplete' installations.

I suggest that you start by running setup and reinstalling all the packages that 
show as incomplete.  Be sure to use the latest setup; a new version was just 
made available a few days ago.

Ken

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