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Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 13:08:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Sam Steingold <sds AT gnu DOT org>
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Subject: Re: XFree86-bin-icons.sh freezes Cygwin installation
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On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Sam Steingold wrote:

> > * 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)

/etc/setup/installed.db

> then setup managed to proceed.

HTH,
	Igor
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