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 Message-Id: <6.0.0.20.0.20031014150131.0296f150@rogue.codemeta.com> X-Sender: lee AT rogue DOT codemeta DOT com (Unverified) Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 15:45:44 -0400 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: "Lee D. Rothstein" Subject: Re: setup hangs during postinstall Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Note-from-DJ: This may be spam In various posts over the last several days it has been implied that the Cygwin 'setup.exe' post-install hang only occurs when Cygwin 'setup.exe' is invoked from Explorer. I have now shown, on my two systems, running respectively Windows 2000 on an AMD Athlon, 1 GHz, and Windows XP on an Pentium 4 Mobile, 2 GHz (1993 MHz) that 'setup.exe' hangs during the posinstall phase, regardless of whether 'setup.exe' is invoked from, any of the following: 1. Double clicking the 'setup.exe' icon/item in Explorer folder containing it 2. Internet Explorer http://Cygwin.com link 3. Start Menu 'Run' box 4. Windows DOS console command line (In all cases, above and on both machines, I have made sure that the latest copy of Cygwin 'setup.exe' is running.) If the other Cygwin core developers cannot replicate this problem, perhaps this is a function of the other software installed on the system. Some questions that seem relevant to this issue would seem to include: Do the core Cygwin developers have installed the following?: * Latest Windows 2K/XP updates? * Norton AntiVirus (NAV)? * NAV, latest code and virust definitions? (Yes, I've tried exiting the virus scanner, first -- no effect) * Microsoft Office applications? * Multiport interconnect disks (Firewire, USB2, SCSI)? 'PS -W' on my Athlon Win2K system, with 'setup.exe' hung in the postinstall phase, yields: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- $ ps -W PID PPID PGID WINPID TTY UID STIME COMMAND 8 0 0 8 ? 0 15:24:48 *** unknown *** 168 0 0 168 ? 0 09:58:02 \SystemRoot\System32\smss.exe 212 0 0 212 ? 0 09:58:51 \??\C:\WINNT\system32\winlogon.exe 240 0 0 240 ? 0 09:58:53 C:\WINNT\system32\services.exe 252 0 0 252 ? 0 09:58:53 C:\WINNT\system32\lsass.exe 436 0 0 436 ? 0 09:58:58 C:\WINNT\system32\svchost.exe 464 0 0 464 ? 0 09:58:58 C:\WINNT\system32\spoolsv.exe 492 0 0 492 ? 0 09:58:58 C:\_Programs\APC\mainserv.exe 524 0 0 524 ? 0 09:59:02 C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccEvtMgr.exe 544 0 0 544 ? 0 09:59:03 C:\WINNT\System32\svchost.exe 568 0 0 568 ? 0 09:59:04 C:\Program Files\Norton AntiVirus\navapsvc.exe 632 0 0 632 ? 0 09:59:06 C:\Program Files\NMapWin\bin\nmapserv.exe 584 0 0 584 ? 0 09:59:07 C:\Program Files\Norton AntiVirus\AdvTools\NPROTECT.EXE 828 0 0 828 ? 0 09:59:09 C:\WINNT\system32\regsvc.exe 900 0 0 900 ? 0 09:59:13 C:\WINNT\system32\MSTask.exe 924 0 0 924 ? 0 09:59:16 C:\WINNT\system32\stisvc.exe 1008 0 0 1008 ? 0 09:59:16 C:\WINNT\System32\WBEM\WinMgmt.exe 1020 0 0 1020 ? 0 09:59:16 C:\WINNT\System32\mspmspsv.exe 1032 0 0 1032 ? 0 09:59:16 C:\WINNT\system32\svchost.exe 1100 0 0 1100 ? 0 09:59:27 C:\WINNT\Explorer.EXE 1252 0 0 1252 ? 0 10:00:00 C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccApp.exe 1312 0 0 1312 ? 0 10:00:02 C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\SymTray.exe 1344 0 0 1344 ? 0 10:00:03 C:\PROGRA~1\Adaptec\DirectCD\directcd.exe 1384 0 0 1384 ? 0 10:00:05 C:\Program Files\Common Files\Real\Update_OB\realsched.exe 1396 0 0 1396 ? 0 10:00:05 C:\Program Files\Java\j2re1.4.2\bin\jusched.exe 1260 0 0 1260 ? 0 10:00:06 C:\Program Files\QuickTime\qttask.exe 1368 0 0 1368 ? 0 10:00:10 C:\PROGRA~1\Adaptec\EASYCD~1\CreateCD\CreateCD.exe 1488 0 0 1488 ? 0 10:00:25 C:\_Programs\APC\apcsystray.exe 1068 0 0 1068 ? 0 11:34:51 G:\Software_Archives\FOSS_Updates\Cygwin\setup.exe 1160 1 1160 1160 con 500 12:00:08 /usr/bin/sh 1272 1160 1160 1272 con 500 12:00:09 /usr/bin/sh 580 0 0 580 ? 0 12:08:21 c:\_progr~1\textpad\textpad.exe 1472 0 0 1472 ? 0 12:34:54 C:\_Programs\TextPad\TextPad.exe 528 0 0 528 ? 0 12:50:56 C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe 1528 1 1528 1528 con 500 12:50:56 /usr/bin/bash 1560 0 0 1560 ? 0 12:51:13 C:\_Programs\Cygwin\bin\ps.exe ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My tray-based background tasks include: * APC UPS Power Chute monitor * MS chain interconnect hardware manager (for SCSI, FireWire) * MS speaker/audio control * NAV scanner (when not disabled) * Adaptec create CD One other difference that may be relevant is that I install all of Cygwin on my systems. Attached is the cygcheck from the Athlon system. -- Lee D. Rothstein -- lee AT veritech DOT com VeriTech -- 603-424-2900 7 Merry Meeting Drive Merrimack, NH 03054-2934 -- 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/