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From: Sam Steingold <sds AT gnu DOT org>
Subject: Re: XFree86-bin-icons.sh freezes Cygwin installation
Date: 02 Oct 2003 13:05:25 -0400
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> * Huijing Zhou <uw AT A DOT B DOT F DOT C DOT N DOT Z DOT pvc DOT jvjv DOT hav-xneyfehur DOT qr> [2003-10-02 18:40:14 +0200]:
>
> While doing a completely new installation of Cygwin using the latest
> Setup version on a Windows 2000 Server, the installation keeps on
> stucking at "/etc/postinstall/XFree86-bin-icons.sh", which would takes
> over half an hour for no reason. There are a bunch of bash, sh and
> other cygwin processes in the process list, but no significant
> processor or harddisk activity. This behaviour is reproduceable most
> of the time, but not always.

I fixed that by removing all files mentioned in
        `cygcheck -l XFree86-bin-icons`
and then removing /etc/packages/XFree86-bin-icons*
(oddly, `cygcheck -c` still mentioned empty XFree86-bin-icons)
then setup managed to proceed.




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