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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:40:37 -0400
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On 3/22/2010 5:33 AM, Mehmet Salgar wrote:
>
> Hallo,
>
> after this answer, I read all the FAQs that I can see and the
> documentation that I could find in Cygwin files and tried several times a
> new installations...
>
> First of all, before an installation I deleted all the Cygwin inforamtion
> from the registery (if I understand the FAQ correctly Cygwin doesn't need
> the registry information anymore) still no success....
>
> To be sure that I am not making any mistake, I updated also the Cygwin at
> my Laptop and it did function correctly there....
>
> Now if I compare the two behavior now, at my desktop during post install
> scripts, it takes quite a time (at least 7 hours) and I see in Task
> Manager lots bean shell process that are not doing anything there and
> hanging. At my laptop, post install scripts take only a fraction of that
> time (may be 1 hour) but actually my laptop has much less CPU power....
>
> So I am out of answer, what can cause this bean shell process to freeze
> and what can be the reason that I can't even run a simple 'ls'
> command...

You cannot run the simple 'ls' command because your postinstall scripts
aren't being run (due to the hang you mentioned).  You may get some
insight as to what's going on if you look at your 'setup.log.full' file
in '/var/log'.

I was hoping that reading <http://cygwin.com/problems.html> would
encourage you to *attach* (and not _append_) your cygcheck output, since
that might help us determine what's wrong on your system.  Failing
that (and assuming setup.log.full hints aren't helpful), my current
WAGs are:

   1. You have an old copy of cygwin1.dll on your system.  Remove it.
   2. You have BLODA <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#BLODA> on your system.
      Remove it all.
   3. You're running into a rebase problem.  Read the README for the
      rebase package to find out how to run rebaseall on your system.

If the above doesn't work, I recommend starting over with an install
of just the default packages (i.e. don't choose anything in 'setup.exe',
just accept all the defaults).  Assuming that something that you're
installing is getting tripped up by something else on your machine,
this minimal install may avoid the problem.  If not, please include
the cygcheck output as requested by <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>
as an attachment to any follow-up post.


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