Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/03/20/15:00:05
On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Christopher M. Balz wrote:
> Answering Igor's questions . . .
>
> 'setup' hangs when it dies. The window its in closes without any
> problem, though.
So it doesn't really crash anything? And this doesn't sound like a hard
hang, either -- at least the events are processed normally...
> Running 'cygwin.bat' from the command line yields nothing.
I.e., just shows another prompt right away, or runs but doesn't show the
prompt? How about if you run
cd c:\cygwin\bin
.\bash.exe --login -i
?
> Below is the content of my setup.log.full file:
>
> setup.log.full [irrelevant parts snipped]:
> 2004/03/20 10:11:01 Starting cygwin install, version 2.416
> [X-startup-scripts] action=1.0.4-1 trust=curr installed=1.0.3-1 src?=no
> categories=All, XFree86
> [xterm] action=185-2 trust=curr installed=185-1 src?=no
> categories=All, XFree86
> 2004/03/20 10:11:17 Installing file://C:\Program Files\cygwin/http%3a%2f%2fmirrors.sunsite.dk%2fcygwin/release/XFree86/X-startup-scripts/X-startup-scripts-1.0.4-1.tar.bz2
> 2004/03/20 10:11:18 Installing file://C:\Program Files\cygwin/http%3a%2f%2fmirrors.sunsite.dk%2fcygwin/release/XFree86/xterm/xterm-185-2.tar.bz2
> 2004/03/20 10:11:20 running: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c /etc/postinstall/post-texmf.sh
> 2004/03/20 11:24:36 mbox note: Installation Complete
> 2004/03/20 11:24:37 Ending cygwin install
Okay, so this shows that you did not reinstall either tetex-base or
tetex-tiny (good), and the postinstall script is still executed (bad).
This means that it never completed the execution, otherwise it would have
been renamed to "*.done". Try actually renaming it (by running
cd c:\cygwin\etc\postinstall
ren post-texmf.sh post-texmf.sh.done
from a CMD prompt). Then try re-running setup and see if it still hangs.
Also, try the latest setup snapshot (<http://cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/>)
and see if it fares better.
It would also be interesting to try actually running the script (via
c:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -x /etc/postinstall/post-texmf.sh.done
) and seeing if it hangs and what output it produces.
HTH,
Igor
> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>
> >On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Christopher M. Balz wrote:
> >
> >>On Win2K SP 4 up-to-date, I install most packages (including X and tex)
> >>and 'setup' hangs with the folllowing message:
> >>
> >> Running . . .
> >>
> >> No package
> >>
> >> /etc/postinstall/post-texmf.sh
> >>
> >>The progress bar is almost finished at this point (above).
> >>
> >>The install has broken my Cygwin shell completely. It pops up in a
> >>window and closes fine but shows no text.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Have you seen <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-03/msg00931.html> (my
> >previous reply)? If you run "cygwin.bat" from a CMD shell, do you get any
> >messages?
> >
> >>The first two times 'setup' hung, it crashed my machine.
> >
> >"Crashed" as in BSOD? What is the exact error (you may need to enable
> >BSODs for this or look in the Windows Event log).
> >
> >>I did try moving 'post-textmf.sh' to 'post-textmf.sh.done' but no luck.
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >This should be 'post-texmf.sh' and 'post-texmf.sh.done'... But that file
> >will be recreated every time you reinstall tetex-base or tetex-tiny.
> >
> >>Thank you in advance!
> >> - CB
> >
> >Is there any post-texmf.sh output in /var/log/setup.log.full?
> > Igor
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