Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/02/01/19:55:23
FWIW, some time ago I thought that setup was hanging regularly while
doing 'Install from a local directory' when the directory was on a network
share. Then on one occasion I started one such install and got
sidetracked for about 5 hrs. When I returned to check on this install
I found that it actually had progressed, though a snail would have
outrun it by a fair margin.
Other methods of accessing the same network share showed no lag at
the same time this slow install was 'progressing'. There's something
about the way I/O is done by setup that made installing from a shared
directory totally unworkable.
This example completed in about 6.5 hrs, installing fewer than 20 pkgs.
Doug
On 1 Feb 2003 at 19:24, Martin Magnusson wrote:
> Pavel Tsekov wrote:
> > Now this is a hell of a bugreport... Would you care to be more specific ?
> > What choices do you make on the various pages of the setup wizard.
> * First, either Install from Internet or Install from Local Directory.
> * Then I specify the root directory (same as I used to have when it
> worked), Install For All Users, Default Text File Type: Unix.
> * At "Select You Internet Connection" I choose Direct Connection. I
> usually download from ftp.sunet.se, but I have tried a couple of other
> servers too.
> * At "Select Packages", I leave everythnig as Default, except the Devel
> category, the Publishing category and Graphics/OpenGL, where I choose
> Install.
>
> > What does it mean "hang" for you ? Is it that the setup application just sits
> > and waits for a very long time without progressing at all
> Exactly. It is not unresponsive though. I can still cancel it
> gracefully, but it doesn't do anything. I have left it on for an hour
> after it seems to hang, just to confirm that it isn't just progressing
> slowly.
>
> I did scan my hard drives (as suggested by L Anderson) with Norton Disk
> Doctor a couple of days ago, but I'm doing it again now. I'll post again
> if that fixes the problem.
>
> / Martin
>
>
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