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Re: Cygwin 1.7.12-1: exit code 1 during post-install regarding dirs in /dev


On Apr  4 12:24, Andre Loker wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to do a fresh installation of Cygwin 1.7.12-1 on a new
> Windows Server 2008 R2 machine. At the end of the installation I get
> a warning that bash.sh returned exit code 1.
> 
> The related parts of the log:
> <<start>>
> 2012/04/04 11:53:05 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc
> --noprofile /etc/postinstall/bash.sh
> ln: cannot remove `/dev/stdin': No such file or directory
> ln: cannot remove `/dev/stdout': No such file or directory
> ln: cannot remove `/dev/stderr': No such file or directory
> ln: cannot remove `/dev/fd': No such file or directory
> 2012/04/04 11:53:05 abnormal exit: exit code=1
> <<end>>
> 
> Possibly related: I get errors a bit earlier in the log files:
> 
> << start>>
> 2012/04/04 11:53:01 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc
> --noprofile /etc/postinstall/000-cygwin-post-install.sh
> mkdir: cannot create directory `/dev/shm': No such file or directory
> 
> Creating /dev/shm directory failed.
> POSIX semaphores and POSIX shared memory will not work
> 
> mkdir: cannot create directory `/dev/mqueue': No such file or directory
> 
> Creating /dev/mqueue directory failed.
> POSIX message queues will not work
> <<end>>
> 
> I *suppose*  the issue is related to this change in 1.7.12:
> "- Cygwin now automatically populates the /dev directory with all
> existing POSIX devices."
> 
> Do I have to take any actions regarding those issues? If so, which?

Thanks for the report.  That's a blatant bug in the /dev handling.
I hope I fixed it sufficiently in CVS.  I'm just generating a new
snapshot which should be available in about half an hour on
http://cygwin.com/snapshots/

Please give it a try.  For instance, call the /etc/postinstall/bash.sh
and /etc/postinstall/000-cygwin-post-install.sh files manually ands
report back if they do what they should in terms of /dev.  Maybe the
scripts now have a .done suffix, but you should still be able to run
them.


Thanks,
Corinna

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