DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id
	:list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post
	:list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:reply-to:mime-version:to
	:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type
	:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=A/1rz+pl3NpIFy2e
	zCQp9kPmVSrMYVhZMjiGiwXZl9tvjcDQRW0Eo4PpyqaFAg6GyimcFC4zbhiP6L7r
	jZ0/9gRwPM0HuKOCvsWpZcm6ilq2JO6ArgiGXmJA8JAniL0kok/EV4Pwz7pS8MD7
	rn2rHMPWigSkrsKGyk7VfcNpD10=
Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Message-id: <53C866FA.7060700@cygwin.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 20:14:50 -0400
From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
Reply-to: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0
MIME-version: 1.0
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Installing Cygwin problem??
References: <86lhrrh6hz DOT fsf AT gmail DOT com>
In-reply-to: <86lhrrh6hz.fsf@gmail.com>
Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit

On 07/17/2014 08:10 PM, David Masterson wrote:
> I attempted to reinstall Cygwin on my system.  The reinstall kept
> seeming to get locked up.  So, after downloading all of Cygwin to a
> local directory, I moved the install directory out of the way and tried
> to install from (I guess) scratch.  Cygwin seemed to always get stuck in
> the man-db.sh script during the post-install process.  I'm not sure if
> the process was conflicting with the McAfee virus scanner.  I was
> finally able to kill the man-db.sh script after ~12 hours of running and
> the installer seemed to go on and finish the installation.  I'm not
> sure, though, what the state of the install is.
>
> 1. Is this a known problem?

Yes, it has been discussed recently on the list.

> 2. Can I rerun the postinstall/man-db.sh script by hand?  If so, how?

You can.  Just run it from bash.

> 3. Or is there a script that I could run instead?

No, man-db.sh is the right script if you're looking to get all the
indexing that man-db prefers.


-- 
Larry

_____________________________________________________________________

A: Yes.
 > Q: Are you sure?
 >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
 >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?

--
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple