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Re: More on 'setup' fails and breaks pre-existing Cygwin installation.


The hang itself is indeed a soft hang. I can click out of it using the 'Cancel' button, and then at least sometimes, 'setup' will tell me that installation is complete. Somewhere in these last clicks is where my entire machine was taken down during two of my earlier attempts today.

   cd c:\cygwin\bin
   .\bash.exe --login -i

yields nothing, as before -- meaning that a blinking prompt is shown on the line after the last command, and that's all.

- CB

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Christopher M. Balz wrote:



Answering Igor's questions . . .

'setup' hangs when it dies. The window its in closes without any
problem, though.



So it doesn't really crash anything? And this doesn't sound like a hard hang, either -- at least the events are processed normally...



Running 'cygwin.bat' from the command line yields nothing.



I.e., just shows another prompt right away, or runs but doesn't show the prompt? How about if you run

cd c:\cygwin\bin
.\bash.exe --login -i

?



Below is the content of my setup.log.full file:

setup.log.full [irrelevant parts snipped]:
2004/03/20 10:11:01 Starting cygwin install, version 2.416
[X-startup-scripts] action=1.0.4-1 trust=curr installed=1.0.3-1 src?=no
categories=All, XFree86
[xterm] action=185-2 trust=curr installed=185-1 src?=no
categories=All, XFree86
2004/03/20 10:11:17 Installing file://C:\Program Files\cygwin/http%3a%2f%2fmirrors.sunsite.dk%2fcygwin/release/XFree86/X-startup-scripts/X-startup-scripts-1.0.4-1.tar.bz2
2004/03/20 10:11:18 Installing file://C:\Program Files\cygwin/http%3a%2f%2fmirrors.sunsite.dk%2fcygwin/release/XFree86/xterm/xterm-185-2.tar.bz2
2004/03/20 10:11:20 running: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c /etc/postinstall/post-texmf.sh
2004/03/20 11:24:36 mbox note: Installation Complete
2004/03/20 11:24:37 Ending cygwin install



Okay, so this shows that you did not reinstall either tetex-base or tetex-tiny (good), and the postinstall script is still executed (bad). This means that it never completed the execution, otherwise it would have been renamed to "*.done". Try actually renaming it (by running

cd c:\cygwin\etc\postinstall
ren post-texmf.sh post-texmf.sh.done

from a CMD prompt).  Then try re-running setup and see if it still hangs.
Also, try the latest setup snapshot (<http://cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/>)
and see if it fares better.

It would also be interesting to try actually running the script (via

c:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -x /etc/postinstall/post-texmf.sh.done

) and seeing if it hangs and what output it produces.
HTH,
	Igor



Igor Pechtchanski wrote:



On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Christopher M. Balz wrote:



On Win2K SP 4 up-to-date, I install most packages (including X and tex)
and 'setup' hangs with the folllowing message:

Running . . .

No package

/etc/postinstall/post-texmf.sh

The progress bar is almost finished at this point (above).

The install has broken my Cygwin shell completely.  It pops up in a
window and closes fine but shows no text.




Have you seen <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-03/msg00931.html> (my
previous reply)?  If you run "cygwin.bat" from a CMD shell, do you get any
messages?



The first two times 'setup' hung, it crashed my machine.


"Crashed" as in BSOD?  What is the exact error (you may need to enable
BSODs for this or look in the Windows Event log).



I did try moving 'post-textmf.sh' to 'post-textmf.sh.done' but no luck.


                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This should be 'post-texmf.sh' and 'post-texmf.sh.done'...  But that file
will be recreated every time you reinstall tetex-base or tetex-tiny.



Thank you in advance!
- CB


Is there any post-texmf.sh output in /var/log/setup.log.full?
Igor







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