Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 11:31:13 +0100 From: Dan Hatton X-X-Sender: ucfbdch@DAN-HATTON.geol.ucl.ac.uk To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Setup 2.358 Hangs During Post-Install Script In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-UCL-MailScanner: Found to be clean Having originally found this problem with Setup 2.358 under Windows 2000, I've now reproduced it with Setup 2.364 under Windows XP, and on a total of 3 independent machines. And it's still happening as of last night. On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Dan Hatton wrote: > I've been trying to update my cygwin packages since yesterday > afternoon, and have found that setup.exe repeatably gets to 99% > complete, then hangs. On one occasion, the hang lasted for over 18 > hours. > > Setup claims to be trying to run a script called > /etc/postinstall/XFree86-bin-icons.sh, which is a symlink to > /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86-bin-icons.sh. > > After cancelling setup, I can still run Cygwin and XFree86 (phew.) > > Any ideas, please? -- Thanks Dan -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/