X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Spam-Abuse: Please report all spam/abuse matters to abuse@bulldogdsl.com Message-ID: <45448BF3.6060507@meridiandigital.co.uk> Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 11:09:39 +0000 From: Julian Hall User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Install failing and leaving unusable system Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 I know this has been discussed here before, but it seems that it's something that happens to a lot of people, so it should probably be fixed. It seems as though a fairly simple update to the setup program might be helpful to people who have the problem. In script.cc, there are currently lines that read: if (retval) log(LOG_PLAIN) << "abnormal exit: exit code=" << retval << endLog;; /* if file exists then delete it otherwise just ignore no file error */ io_stream::remove ("cygfile://" + scriptName + ".done"); io_stream::move ("cygfile://" + scriptName, "cygfile://" + scriptName + ".done"); I'd suggest changing them so that the destination filename in the case of an abnormal exit is different (e.g. scriptName + ".failed"). A flag could then be set so that a dialog box is shown at the end, stating that errors occurred running the postinstall scripts, and directing users to a simple shell script that can be run after rebooting, which will run all the /etc/postinstall/*.failed scripts and move them to appropraite ".done" names. Does that sound like a sensible idea? -- 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/