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 X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 13:57:20 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: christophermbalz@stanfordalumni.org cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: several messages In-Reply-To: <405C8FEA.7000205@andrew.cmu.edu> Message-ID: References: <405C8FEA.7000205@andrew.cmu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 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 (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 -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- 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/