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Re: installation freezes at /usr/bin/idle


At 12:51 PM 1/23/2004, Ling F. Zhang you wrote:
>Hi:
>
>I will do that as soon as I get to my computer (later
>this afternoon). I would like to also point out that I
>tried the following:
>
>unselect Python during the package section phase
>
>result:
>set freezes when trying to installed rcs (which is the
>next package)


OK.


>I suspect that some windows service/process is
>conflicting with cygwin, as I had similar freezing
>problem long ago with Norton Anti-Virus Enterprise.
>However this is a new installation on this computer
>with win2k3 standard. The only software I got on it so
>far are MS Office System 2k3.


Right.  Virus software can be a problem in these 
situations.  But if you haven't installed any, then
this can't be a problem here. ;-)


>--- Larry Hall <cygwin-lh@cygwin.com> wrote:
>> Hm.  Something's not right here.  Let's see if we
>> can start with the 
>> basics.  Can you invoke 
>> 
>>   <Cygwin install drive>:<Cygwin install
>> directory>\bin\cygcheck -s -r -v
>> 
>> If so, send the output *as an attachment* to the
>> list.  That will give us
>> some idea of the state you're in.
>> 
>> Larry
>> 
>> 
>> At 03:57 AM 1/23/2004, Ling F. Zhang you wrote:
>> >I can click "Cancel" but then it give me an err
>> msg:
>> >cannot open /usr/.../setup.log for writing
>> >I checked writing permission to the folder and it
>> >checks out. I used two different mirror
>> >http://mirror.kernel.org
>> >http://mirror.rcn.net
>> >
>> >and same thing....
>> >
>> >--- Larry Hall <cygwin-lh@cygwin.com> wrote:
>> >> At 11:04 PM 1/22/2004, Ling F. Zhang you wrote:
>> >> >I am doing a full installtion with all src
>> >> selected,
>> >> >and when it's installing
>> >> >
>> >> >Python-2.3.3-1
>> >> >/usr/bin/idle
>> >> >
>> >> >The program uses 100% CPU, and doesn't do
>> anything
>> >> for
>> >> >long time. I am using a p4 1.7G, 512 RDRAM,
>> 120GB
>> >> HDD
>> >> >(lots of space remaining), WIN2K3
>> Standard...anyone
>> >> >has the same problem?
>> >> 
>> >> 
>> >> Google may be able to help answer that question:
>> >> 
>> >>
>>
>><http://www.google.com/search?q=setup++%22100%25+CPU%22+site:cygwin.com&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_qdr=all&start=10&sa=N>
>> >> 
>> >> But I didn't have that problem and I have
>> >> Python-2.3.3-1 installed.
>> >> Maybe you just got a bad package/mirror.  Try
>> >> checking the md5sum 
>> >> of the python package to see if it's corrupt or
>> >> something.
>> >> 
>> >> 
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