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Subject: RE: postinstall hang
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 19:20:15 +0100
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David Johnstone wrote on 01 April 2008 19:14:

> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > Hash: SHA1
> > 
> > According to Popper, Samuel (US SSA) on 3/31/2008 2:48 PM:
> > > > I've tried to install cygwin now about 7 or 8 times but the
> > > > postinstall always hangs somewhere, in different scripts at
> > > > different places. 
> > 
> > Sounds like the classic symptoms of
> http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#BLODA
> 
> Thanks. Sounds plausible.
> Unfortunately though I have killed all possible candidates
> I could find and it doesn't seem to make any difference.
> I found a few references to "BLODA" as well as the link above,
> but no actual "list" as such anywhere. Anyone know of a list?

  Sorry, I ought to send a patch to update that acronym entry with a link.
The list is in the FAQ, at:

http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.bloda


    cheers,
      DaveK
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