X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com 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:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=wkpvAI+NYWDjo3nhYSFI7ATzMj4PVcLF+dne7Z3z6XC /OzSTDA38y4hf1AP40zNypJcObd6vGUo19WjdPW3zbvaLvsggzBGZzwupbSu+jcH RWAN+g3h/zRe7VDj3JZL9K5Zi3RebN+dHZZrhWEEygkef19O1E/F5jxzg/Uvahoc = DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=5bMRQRrd7i0xKUTsdjr02ra3kiU=; b=HvWGs7BCMZjL4W66O v9AHCyBkZBR5T8/+OC5HyhzvVrm4rF7cHROaV+te9aEz1dOyXdKKZTMj3cGVlG2D fmDhYfzQ6xFGRWu4dFofJ1Re75fa2NeL7qONFb1QKcU72RVogRL8wumXTvidlRKs euQPNwhdtpgeC1Ya2eN41D64Y8= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: limerock02.mail.cornell.edu X-CornellRouted: This message has been Routed already. Message-ID: <54465853.3040000@cornell.edu> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 08:57:55 -0400 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours References: <1405864858950-109904 DOT post AT n5 DOT nabble DOT com> <53CBFFD1 DOT 4030808 AT cornell DOT edu> <1413844739487-112040 DOT post AT n5 DOT nabble DOT com> <5445C04A DOT 3000407 AT cornell DOT edu> <1413864414772-112047 DOT post AT n5 DOT nabble DOT com> In-Reply-To: <1413864414772-112047.post@n5.nabble.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes On 10/21/2014 12:06 AM, Don MacDougall wrote: >> I don't know what happened, but you must have inadvertently selected >> some packages to install that you didn't intend to choose. There are no >> texlive packages in a default installation. > > If I somehow did something like this, is there an easy way to undo it other > than to delete everything and start over? Since I've already downloaded > everything I've no objection to having it install, especially since the > install says it's 99% complete, but this one package seems to hold > everything up and when I try to install everything else while uninstalling > this one package, the installer still stalls at the same postinstall script. > Might I presume that it can't uninstall till it first completes the install? > If that's the case, then I suppose I'll just leave it set to install and let > it run for 3 or 4 days in the hope it'll eventually complete. Most of the > other postinstall scripts and the whole rest of the install process ran in > no more than a few hours. I wouldn't try to restart the install without figuring out why /etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-basic.sh didn't complete. Is there anything at all in /var/log/ that might provide a clue? Usually setup writes temporary files while it's executing postinstall scripts. Ken -- 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