Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/04/26/17:09:02
On Saturday, April 26, 2003 3:20 PM, Igor Pechtchanski [SMTP:pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu] wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Apr 2003, Phil Bewig wrote:
>
> > I am having trouble installing cygwin on a machine running Win98. I have
> > downloaded setup.exe to my machine, the latest version currently available.
>
> Which is?.. Numbers help...
>
> > I have run setup.exe and downloaded the default selection of packages.
> > Setup.exe has properly computed checksums. Then setup.exe hangs. I am
> > able to press ctrl-alt-delete to access the task window, which shows
> > setup.exe is not responding, and end the task. I have tried several times
> > and setup.exe won't go past this point. I never see the list of packages
> > available to select which ones to install. There is no anti-virus software
> > running on the computer during installation. No files are written in
> > /var/log. My primary hard drive is c:, my cygwin directory is d:\ and my
> > package directory is d:\package. I had cygwin installed on this machine
> > about a year ago, then uninstalled it, following the directions in the faq;
> > is it possible that something is left from the prior installation that is
> > causing the problem? I don't know what to do next. Can anyone help?
> >
> > Phil
>
> How long did you leave setup "hanging" for? If you haven't downloaded a
> snapshot from <http://cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/>, you are likely to be
> the victim of a "rush job" traversal algorithm for the package list (see
> <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-04/msg01150.html>). This should be
> fixed in the 2.358 snapshot. Or you could simply wait "a minute"
> (<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-04/msg02256.html>).
> Igor
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Setup version 2.340.2.5, downloaded earlier today.
On one occasion I left it hanging for several hours. For a while
it would still respond to system messages, for instance I could
drag the title bar to move the window to a different part of the
screen. Then it stopped doing even that, and the task window
sait "not responding." I was previously aware of the "long
minute" thread, having searched the mailing list, but not of the
"rush job" thread.
Since posting I have made another attempt, getting farther. I
was able to select packages on the chooser screen, and
setup.exe began installing sh.exe. I let it work for over an
hour, with no other programs running (other than the normal
background processes). When I came back to my machine,
setup.exe responded to an attempt to drag the title bar. But
then I could do nothing else with the machine. Even trying
to load solitaire gave me the message "insufficient memory;
try unloading other programs." So obviously something was
going on with setup.exe consuming memory. There was no
disk thrashing. I waited another fifteen minutes then killed
setup.exe.
I assume that what setup.exe is doing at this point is
extracting sh.exe from the ash-20020731-1.tar.bz2 archive.
Is that correct? How does the extract process work? What
program does the extraction? Setup.exe? Or something
else? And why isn't there a setup log somewhere?
Many thanks for your kind assistance.
Phil
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