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 Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 15:12:22 -0700 From: Glenn Murray X-X-Sender: Glenn AT beautiful To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Any fix/work-around for post-install hang problem, yet? In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.0.20040303132950.03ab2530@127.0.0.1> Message-ID: References: <6 DOT 0 DOT 1 DOT 1 DOT 0 DOT 20040303132950 DOT 03ab2530 AT 127 DOT 0 DOT 0 DOT 1> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="1133132064-492451655-1078346444=:728" Content-ID: X-Mines-MailScanner: Found to be clean --1133132064-492451655-1078346444=:728 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-ID: On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Glenn Murray wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm suffering the same problem as in this thread: > > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-12/msg00215.html > > and as described in this thread, too: > > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg00868.html > > > > This problem always occurs on my XP boxes. Updating Cygwin, > > reinstalling Cygwin, and rebooting do not help. Recently I had a > > working Cygwin on an XP box, installed MS's IE6 service/security > > pack, bash started being flaky, and when I updated Cygwin, > > post-install hung as described in the threads above and bash > > continues its flakiness. > > > > I couldn't find anything in the archives recently. Has anyone > > found a work-around for this? > > > > Thanks, > > Glenn > > Glenn, > > Please review > > > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > > and follow the directions there to tell us about your system. Also, > please attach /var/log/setup.log.full from a setup session where > postinstall scripts hung (note: that file is overwritten every time you > run setup, and you may need to kill the hung bash/sh processes in the task > manager to allow setup to complete). > Igor > P.S. "flaky" is a very vague description. Concrete examples that would > allow others to reproduce the problem, along with the information from the > problem reporting guidelines above, would be much more helpful. On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Larry Hall wrote: > At 12:55 PM 3/3/2004, you wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I'm suffering the same problem as in this thread: > >http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-12/msg00215.html > >and as described in this thread, too: > >http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg00868.html > > > >This problem always occurs on my XP boxes. Updating Cygwin, > >reinstalling Cygwin, and rebooting do not help. Recently I had a > >working Cygwin on an XP box, installed MS's IE6 service/security > >pack, bash started being flaky, and when I updated Cygwin, > >post-install hung as described in the threads above and bash > >continues its flakiness. > > > >I couldn't find anything in the archives recently. Has anyone > >found a work-around for this? > > > There was lots of talk in the email archives about this issue and lots > of work on it too. Did you see: > > > > ? > > If this isn't your solution, please provide some information on what's > hanging and what you have installed, a la: > > > >Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > > > > > > > -- > Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com > RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office > 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX > Holliston, MA 01746 > Igor and Larry, Thanks for the responses. I reproduce this problem by running setup.exe and it hangs every time, like I said. I am running the most recent versions of everything, like I said (setup says cygwin 1.5.7-1). As I said, it happens on WinXP boxes; I haven't seen it on my Win2K boxes. I've attached setup.log. Yes, I saw http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg01166.html when I was browsing the archives. Michael Robbert (from my first referenced thread) has just told me he might have the time to work on this; I do not. I was just hoping to get lucky and find a quick fix. Cheers, Glenn P.S. "Flaky" is a vague description, but accurate. 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