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:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=x2tS+dlfXu/ehNmq hRanna31lMGP6qjfQjdrKVQ98RxT8wnH08EtjH8+7Sv4ppPOa6EovFLuUxitT5Fg e0uuIarVKJ5cb80mKlDAgjGilW9tMuiNLPHynVFNcMfd6OJmRJ5wPVSQvY0qOS8+ Oo3peGXl9BsJcloCuwcqj3OHoG0= 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:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=R2h9Ymm6Ex7yNEwfI/2hOz W7d/I=; b=mIaLsOYYnUMFacpFyg321l/uPuRdaAWUF4JNl6j/bjhMMMm5Cq19o8 HSP/2/ftpP7BS1k8d56QlZHRoSp9mabIEUaNxBS9yPUHsBF4l7cj712qy4rxbCqW 72bG0MmX8aiZ7tdar6GRFvgrVAXnBsCsHzZUhl0IJTo3LFr6j7xMo= 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=-0.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=dlls, DLLs, H*f:sk:CANnLRd, cwd X-HELO: limerock04.mail.cornell.edu X-CornellRouted: This message has been Routed already. Subject: Re: New cygwin install hanging on postinstall To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: From: Ken Brown Message-ID: <56A137DF.9050901@cornell.edu> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 14:56:15 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes On 1/21/2016 12:40 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> On 20 January 2016 at 17:06, KARR, DAVID wrote: >>> I was installing cygwin for the first time on a Win7-32bit box. >> It is hanging in postinstall, with "0/Perpetual" and >> "/etc/postinstall/0p_texlive_prep.dash. I've tried this twice now, >> and it hangs effectively forever on this step (waited 15-20 minutes >> each time). What other information could I provide? I looked at >> the end of the setup.log file, but that just indicates that >> installation was complete. > While it's sitting here, I dumped out "/var/log/setup.log.full". Here is the end of the file: > ---------------- > The following DLLs couldn't be rebased because they were in use: > /usr/bin/cygssp-0.dll > /usr/bin/cygperl5_22.dll > /usr/bin/cyggcc_s-1.dll > /usr/bin/cygcrypt-0.dll > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.22/i686-cygwin-threads-64int/auto/List/Util/Util. > dll > /usr/lib/perl5/5.22/i686-cygwin-threads-64int/auto/IO/IO.dll > /usr/lib/perl5/5.22/i686-cygwin-threads-64int/auto/File/Glob/Glob.dll > /usr/lib/perl5/5.22/i686-cygwin-threads-64int/auto/Fcntl/Fcntl.dll > /usr/lib/perl5/5.22/i686-cygwin-threads-64int/auto/Encode/Encode.dll > /usr/lib/perl5/5.22/i686-cygwin-threads-64int/auto/Digest/MD5/MD5.dll > /usr/lib/perl5/5.22/i686-cygwin-threads-64int/auto/Cwd/Cwd.dll There's your problem. There were Cygwin processes running when you did the most recent install, so the _autorebase script couldn't do its job. You need to do a full rebase before trying again. See the instructions in https://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-01/msg00216.html 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