X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Eric Mader Subject: Re: Install hangs Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:16:02 -1000 Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <001f01c6e194$e3e56970$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 Eric Mader wrote: > I was able to get setup.exe unstuck by cd'ing to /etc/preremove, running > automake-devel.sh and then deleting it. I had to do this with about > three other scripts in this directory before setup.exe would move on to > the next phase. It's now happily installing all the selected packages. > > I'm not sure what was going on with the offending scripts... > > Regards, > Eric It seems I spoke too soon, now it setup.exe hangs on the /etc/postinstall/00ash.sh script. The installation seems incomplete. For example, the "ls" command doesn't work. So it seems that whatever was going on with the preinstall scripts is also happening w/ th postinstall scripts, but now I don't have a functioning environment in which to run them by hand :-( Regards, Eric -- 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/