[ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBDS-3826?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.... ] Jan Richter commented on JBDS-3826: ----------------------------------- It looks like we might need to be even more restrictive about such characters. Now cygwin is failing namely because of parentheses (), braces [], ampersand &, or single quotes '. Powershell seems to be trying to interpret these symbols. {noformat} Uncaught (in promise) Error: Command failed: powershell -Command "$p = Start-Process -WindowStyle hidden -PassThru -wait -FilePath 'c:\DevelopmentSuite!@$^&()_=+-,.'{}[]\cygwin\setup-x86_64.exe' -ArgumentList '--no-admin --quiet-mode --only-site -l c:\DevelopmentSuite!@$^&()_=+-,.'{}[]\cygwin\packages --site http://mirrors.xmission.com/cygwin --root c:\DevelopmentSuite!@$^&()_=+-,.'{}[]\cygwin --categories Base --packages openssh,rsync'; exit $p.ExitCode;" At line:1 char:103 + ... assThru -wait -FilePath 'c:\DevelopmentSuite!@$^&()_=+-,.'{}[]\cygwin ... + ~ Array index expression is missing or not valid. At line:1 char:207 + ... no-admin --quiet-mode --only-site -l c:\DevelopmentSuite!@$^&()_=+-,. ... + ~ The ampersand (&) character is not allowed. The & operator is reserved for future use; wrap an ampersand in double quotation marks ("&") to pass it as part of a string. At line:1 char:209 + ... o-admin --quiet-mode --only-site -l c:\DevelopmentSuite!@$^&()_=+-,.' ... + ~ An expression was expected after '('. At line:1 char:323 + ... ission.com/cygwin --root c:\DevelopmentSuite!@$^&()_=+-,.'{}[]\cygwin ... + ~ Array index expression is missing or not valid. At line:1 char:374 + ... cygwin --categories Base --packages openssh,rsync'; exit $p.ExitCode; + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The string is missing the terminator: '. + CategoryInfo : ParserError: (:) [], ParentContainsErrorRecordExc eption + FullyQualifiedErrorId : MissingArrayIndexExpression {noformat} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.2.3#72005)