X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: Haojun Bao To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Garbage man pages In-Reply-To: <4A38574F.3090202@gmail.com> (Dave Korn's message of "Wed, 17 Jun 2009 03:39:11 +0100") References: <4A326B74 DOT 7000005 AT gmail DOT com> <4A326F19 DOT 8000303 AT gmail DOT com> <4A33100F DOT 5070401 AT gmail DOT com> <83zlccsk2h DOT fsf AT gmail DOT com> <4A33864E DOT 9010506 AT gmail DOT com> <4A36531A DOT 3010508 AT gmail DOT com> <4A38574F DOT 3090202 AT gmail DOT com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.94 (windows-nt) Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:36:51 +0800 Message-ID: <83skhy6zek.fsf@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 Dave Korn writes: > > I said I'd check: there doesn't seem anything wrong with the packaging, > which hasn't changed in a couple of years now; the most likely thing is that > you and Bao experienced some kind of failure during running the postinstall > scripts. Checking the log files /var/log/setup.* might show some indication > of the problem. (But it also might not, error-handling paths are a known > weakness in setup.exe.) Thanks:-) I can confirm your guess, the following lines are in my /var/log/setup.log: 2009/06/04 18:06:49 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile -c /etc/postinstall/man.sh 2009/06/04 18:06:50 abnormal exit: exit code=127 Here's a complete list of abnormal exits, note that I did 2 install, first time is default, second time is full-install. I used `grep abnormal -B 1 setup.log': 2009/06/04 18:06:44 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile -c /etc/postinstall/000-cygwin-post-install.sh 2009/06/04 18:06:47 abnormal exit: exit code=127 2009/06/04 18:06:47 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile -c /etc/postinstall/passwd-grp.sh 2009/06/04 18:06:47 abnormal exit: exit code=127 2009/06/04 18:06:47 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile -c /etc/postinstall/update-info-dir.sh 2009/06/04 18:06:48 abnormal exit: exit code=127 2009/06/04 18:06:48 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile -c /etc/postinstall/coreutils.sh 2009/06/04 18:06:48 abnormal exit: exit code=127 2009/06/04 18:06:48 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile -c /etc/postinstall/terminfo0.sh 2009/06/04 18:06:48 abnormal exit: exit code=127 2009/06/04 18:06:48 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile -c /etc/postinstall/bash.sh 2009/06/04 18:06:49 abnormal exit: exit code=127 2009/06/04 18:06:49 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile -c /etc/postinstall/base-files-profile.sh 2009/06/04 18:06:49 abnormal exit: exit code=127 2009/06/04 18:06:49 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile -c /etc/postinstall/base-files-mketc.sh 2009/06/04 18:06:49 abnormal exit: exit code=127 2009/06/04 18:06:49 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile -c /etc/postinstall/man.sh 2009/06/04 18:06:50 abnormal exit: exit code=127 2009/06/04 18:06:50 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile -c /etc/postinstall/terminfo.sh 2009/06/04 18:06:50 abnormal exit: exit code=127 -- 2009/06/04 18:59:17 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile -c /etc/postinstall/clamav.sh 2009/06/04 18:59:18 abnormal exit: exit code=1 -- 2009/06/04 18:59:26 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile -c /etc/postinstall/exim.sh 2009/06/04 18:59:26 abnormal exit: exit code=2 -- 2009/06/04 19:57:08 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile -c /etc/postinstall/brltty.sh 2009/06/04 19:57:09 abnormal exit: exit code=1 -- 2009/06/04 19:58:26 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile -c /etc/postinstall/postinstall-ec-fonts-mftraced.sh 2009/06/04 19:58:31 abnormal exit: exit code=1 -- 2009/06/04 20:03:28 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile -c /etc/postinstall/shared-mime-info.sh 2009/06/04 20:03:28 abnormal exit: exit code=127 -- 2009/06/04 20:05:41 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile -c /etc/postinstall/x3270.sh 2009/06/04 20:05:41 abnormal exit: exit code=127 -- 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/