X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <451F1F91.5010007@cygwin.com> Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 21:53:21 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060727 Fedora/1.5.0.5-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5.0.5 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Install hangs References: <001f01c6e194$e3e56970$a501a8c0 AT CAM DOT ARTIMI DOT COM> <451AD645 DOT 9060601 AT cygwin DOT com> <451B361B DOT 5080903 AT cygwin DOT com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Eric Mader wrote: > Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >> Eric Mader wrote: >>> >>> In the process of messing around w/ the scripts in /etc/postinstall I >>> ran into a problem w/ find. In an attempt to find scripts where both >>> the '.sh' and the '.sh.done' versions existed I typed the command: >>> >>> find . -name "*.sh" -exec ls \{\}.done \; >>> >>> This caused some strange error messages, and left some stalled >>> processes running 'find' behind. (I can't run this command now >>> because the successful run of setup.exe cleaned them all up, but >>> here's the output of a similar use of '-exec' in find: >>> >>> $ find . -name "*.sh.done" -exec ls \{\} \; >>> 197 [main] find 16764 fhandler_dev_zero::fixup_mmap_after_fork: >>> requested 0x >>> 430000 != 0x0 mem alloc base 0x430000, state 0x2000, size 1040384, >>> Win32 error 4 >>> 87 >>> 543 [main] find 16764 c:\cygwin\bin\find.exe: *** fatal error - >>> c:\cygwin\bi >>> n\find.exe: *** recreate_mmaps_after_fork_failed >>> >>> It takes quite a long time to get a command prompt back after these >>> error messages, and it leaves behing a stalled process. >>> >>> Is this releated somehow to my many failed attempts to run setup.exe, >>> or is it a know problem w/ find? >>> >> >> Could be a rebase issue. Try installing the package, read the README, >> and >> follow the instructions for rebasing your system. > > I ran rebaseall (w/ no arguments) and the above find command still fails > in the same way. Anything else I can try? Perhaps this will help: > Is there a way to save the list of installed packages and do a clean > install? See /etc/setup/install.db -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/