Re: base-files-mketc.sh hangs

[Liu Haibin <liu dot haibin at gmail dot com>]

I tried changing base-files-mketc.sh to base-files-mketc.sh.done and
it started to hang at cygwin-doc.sh


On 12/27/05, Liu Haibin <liu.haibin@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/27/05, Igor Peshansky <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
> > > I got a problem after I reinstalled cygwin.
> > > /etc/postinstall/base-files-mketc.sh hangs there everytime I install
> > > packages.
> >
> > This is obviously not normal.  Do you press "Cancel" to interrupt it?
>
> Yes, I do.
>
> > > And it will produce some log files like setup.log.postinstallXa00156
> > > under /var/log.
> >
> > This, however, is.  That's the mechanism setup uses to get the script
> > output into its log.
>
> Those setup.log.postinstall files are all 0 byte. But I do remember I
> saw one file with one sentence like child process died. I can't
> remember it exactly. Unfortunately I deleted it.
>
> > > I tried to run /etc/postinstall/base-files-mketc.sh in the shell and it
> > > ran ok. Any idea what went wrong?
> >
> > Not really -- there isn't enough information in your report.  Please read
> > and follow the Cygwin problem reporting guidelines at
> > <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>, especially the part about attaching (as
> > an uncompressed text attachment) the output of "cygcheck -svr" on your
> > system.
>
> Attached is the file. The cygwin is provided by a product I'm using. I
> installed extra packages like gcc and upgraded the cygwin1.dll
> (otherwise the new installed gcc won't work)
>
>
>

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