X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <14339689.post@talk.nabble.com> Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 09:08:17 -0800 (PST) From: Quip11 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: Cygwin Installation Problems on Windows Vista (killing sh.exe helps) In-Reply-To: <12786663.post@talk.nabble.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Nabble-From: dennisf@denix.us References: <96c450350704071826qe3e5f5di80b7dd4375619f38@mail.gmail.com> <96c450350704071900s7c559797pcdde0542636db9b8@mail.gmail.com> <12780123.post@talk.nabble.com> <006701c7fad4$a0835200$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> <12786663.post@talk.nabble.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: 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 lent wrote: > > > On the "semi-broken installation": > Actually, the problem was that the "whatever vital job" that > /etc/postinstall/gnuplot.sh was doing > never completed. 30 minutes of wait time by multiple Vista users on > multiple brands of spanking new > laptops indicates some sort of interaction bug of these shell scripts (or > the programs they run) with the "wonders" of Vista. > > This "hang at 99% forever" symptom persists even with setting the > Properties of > setup.exe to run in "Windows XP(SP2)" compatibility mode. > > It's a very disappointing installation experience for novice programmers. > > Our XP and Windows 2000 users do not have these problems as setup.exe > completes just fine. > > Thanks again for your attention to this annoying bug. > Chris Lent > > Actually I'm having this same problem right now with good ol' Windows XP. If it doesn't hang in /etc/postinstall/update-info-dir.sh, it hangs somewhere else. I've walked away and let it run for hours. There's something wrong with the scripts. And this is three months later. -Q -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Cygwin-Installation-Problems-on-Windows-Vista-tp9889324p14339689.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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/