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 Reply-To: From: "Alan Miles" To: Cc: Subject: FW: XFree86-bin-icons .. believe cygwin xfree86 a "red" herring ... this is I believe a cygwin problem Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 04:56:53 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Importance: Normal All, This is attempt 4 - I cannot seem to get the attachment there, since I get: Hi. This is the qmail-send program at sources.redhat.com. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. : ezmlm-reject: fatal: Sorry, I don't accept messages larger than 100000 bytes (#5.2.3) : ezmlm-reject: fatal: Sorry, I don't accept messages larger than 50000 bytes (#5.2.3) --- Enclosed are the original headers of the message. and according to my emailer the attachment is 777kB. I did try and send the cygcheck etc. -----Original Message----- From: Alan Miles [mailto:miles0201 AT cox DOT net] Sent: September 29, 2003 23:34 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Cc: cygwin-xfree AT cygwin DOT com Subject: FW: XFree86-bin-icons .. believe cygwin xfree86 a "red" herring ... this is I believe a cygwin problem All, This is attempt 3 ... the previous attempts failed because the emailer said the messages, with the uncompressed log files was too big, and thus would send them. I have tarred and compressed them into the logs.tgz file - manifest: logs/ logs/cygcheck_results_machine1_works.txt logs/cygcheck_results_machine2_doesnt_work.txt logs/setup_machine1_works.log logs/setup_machine1_works.log.full logs/setup_machine2_doesnt_work.log logs/setup_machine2_doesnt_work.log.full Alan -----Original Message----- From: Alan Miles [mailto:miles0201 AT cox DOT net] Sent: September 29, 2003 23:11 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Cc: cygwin-xfree AT cygwin DOT com Subject: RE: XFree86-bin-icons .. believe cygwin xfree86 a "red" herring ... this is I believe a cygwin problem All, I believe this problem relates to the items listed in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-09/msg01680.html - RE: Install gets to 99% and then stops http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-09/msg00747.html - Setup 2.358 Hangs During Post-Install Script Additionally I have two separate machines, one fully updated on 26-Sep-2003 (which exhibits the problem) and one updated today that doesn't. Differences: 1/ The 26-Sep-2003 machine uses the ** latest ** setup.exe (files labelled machine2, doesnt_work) 2/ Today's update use the previous older version (file labelled machine1_work) 3/ I built special private install packages for 26-Sep-2003 machine which I have uses successfully for several months which do ** NOT ** involve XFree86 and these packages also exhibit: Something strange is going on here... setup.exe says "Running: No Package /etc/postinstal/". What is up with the "No Package"? My packages deal with my special problem with the password file (published on this list), the jar command, script etc. The setup.log.full contains the /usr/bin/bash -x dump of the /etc/postinstall/ files. 4/ When investigating, the problem in 3, I to found the 'cygpath' problem in ** my ** private packages (which as stated do ** NOT ** involve XFree86) This leads me to believe that there is some kind of interaction between the new setup.exe and cygpath that is causing the problem. I am attaching both sets of setup.log, setup.log.full, and the cygcheck output for both machines. Also I noticed within the file setup_machine2_doesnt_work.log.full: Transcript written on amstex.log. fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/lambda.oft installed. fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/omega.oft installed. fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/amstex.fmt installed. fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/latex.fmt installed. fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/pdflatex.fmt installed. fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/pdftex.fmt installed. fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/tex.fmt installed. fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/elatex.efmt installed. fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/etex.efmt installed. fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/pdfelatex.efmt installed. fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/pdfetex.efmt installed. fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/mpost.mem installed. fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/mf.base installed. fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/mfw.base installed. install_link failed for /usr/bin/latex. File already exists. Checking for psfonts.map in config.ps... no. Adding ... done 2003/09/27 00:32:49 running: H:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c /etc/postinstall/postinstall-lilypond.sh find: paths must precede expression Usage: find [path...] [expression] rm: too few arguments Try `rm --help' for more information. 2003/09/27 00:32:50 running: H:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c /etc/postinstall/proftpd.sh 2003/09/27 00:32:50 running: H:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c /etc/postinstall/robots.sh 2003/09/27 00:32:51 running: H:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c /etc/postinstall/rpm.sh 2003/09/27 00:32:52 running: H:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c /etc/postinstall/splint.sh 2003/09/27 00:32:52 running: H:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c /etc/postinstall/squid-postinstall.sh will not overwrite existing /etc/squid.conf will not overwrite existing /etc/mime.conf 2003/09/27 00:32:52 running: H:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c /etc/postinstall/sysvinit.sh Creating /usr/bin/init-config Creating default /etc/rc file There is an issue with the find command. Additionally when I look at http://cygwin.com/setup.html I don't see any documentation for the /etc/preremove scripts (although I am very certain the Igor or others wrote this, since I did see some diffs flying around for it), nor any docs /etc/postremove. I am going to hazard a guess somebody is going to get upset with me for altering the subject line, since this might break the threading, but I want people to read this email ... Alan -----Original Message----- From: Harold L Hunt II [mailto:huntharo AT msu DOT edu] Sent: September 29, 2003 12:16 To: cygwin-xfree AT cygwin DOT com Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: XFree86-bin-icons [Discussion on this issue is now taking place where it should have in the first place: cygwin-xfree. Please follow the cygwin-xfree mailing list for further posts.] Igor, Okay, that explains why I couldn't find the message in cygwin-xfree. I really wish someone would have redirected the question over here... I never saw it. > FWIW, you can force the order of execution of the XFree86-bin-icons.sh > postinstall script by making the package dependent on XFree86-bin and > others, but that would most likely defeat the purpose of the package. Thanks. I actually did that just now, right before you suggested it. However, I didn't know that it would force the order of post-install script execution; that is a nice side-effect. The bin-icons package should logically depend on the bin package. People can manually unselect it if they want to. >>>>>The XFree86-bin-icons package is buggy. It's basically a postinstall >>>>>script that tries to create icons for the X programs that are installed >>>>>on your machine. The problem is that it tries to create them in the >>>>>Start Menu for "All Users" without checking whether the current user can >>>>>write to it. That's not entirely true. For example, my account has Administrator priveleges on my machine, the script runs fine when I launch it from a bash prompt; so file permissions are not an issue. >>>>>I'm not quite sure why it hangs for you, but you can try >>>>>runnning that script manually via "bash -x" and seeing where it hangs. It doesn't hang when you do this. Something strange is going on here... setup.exe says "Running: No Package /etc/postinstal/XFree86-bin-icons". What is up with the "No Package"? Is that indicating the real problem? Another thing is that an Uninstall of XFree86-bin-icons also hangs when it tries to run the preremove script. Yet, running the preremove script by hand never causes any problems (e.g. bash -x /etc/preremove/XFree86-bin-icons.sh). What gives? Harold -- 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/