Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: "Doug Wyatt" To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 18:55:09 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Setup hangs repetedly Reply-to: dwyatt AT sunflower DOT com Message-ID: <3E3C180D.13139.626EC036@localhost> In-reply-to: <3E3C10FA.9010700@student.uu.se> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body FWIW, some time ago I thought that setup was hanging regularly while doing 'Install from a local directory' when the directory was on a network share. Then on one occasion I started one such install and got sidetracked for about 5 hrs. When I returned to check on this install I found that it actually had progressed, though a snail would have outrun it by a fair margin. Other methods of accessing the same network share showed no lag at the same time this slow install was 'progressing'. There's something about the way I/O is done by setup that made installing from a shared directory totally unworkable. This example completed in about 6.5 hrs, installing fewer than 20 pkgs. Doug On 1 Feb 2003 at 19:24, Martin Magnusson wrote: > Pavel Tsekov wrote: > > Now this is a hell of a bugreport... Would you care to be more specific ? > > What choices do you make on the various pages of the setup wizard. > * First, either Install from Internet or Install from Local Directory. > * Then I specify the root directory (same as I used to have when it > worked), Install For All Users, Default Text File Type: Unix. > * At "Select You Internet Connection" I choose Direct Connection. I > usually download from ftp.sunet.se, but I have tried a couple of other > servers too. > * At "Select Packages", I leave everythnig as Default, except the Devel > category, the Publishing category and Graphics/OpenGL, where I choose > Install. > > > What does it mean "hang" for you ? Is it that the setup application just sits > > and waits for a very long time without progressing at all > Exactly. It is not unresponsive though. I can still cancel it > gracefully, but it doesn't do anything. I have left it on for an hour > after it seems to hang, just to confirm that it isn't just progressing > slowly. > > I did scan my hard drives (as suggested by L Anderson) with Norton Disk > Doctor a couple of days ago, but I'm doing it again now. I'll post again > if that fixes the problem. > > / Martin > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/