Re: upgrades hang forever on 0p_000_autorebase.dash

[Patrick Mackinlay <patrick at spacesurfer dot com>]

Hi,

I think that is very unlikely, I tried running setup many times and at
least once I rebooted and just ran setup, that time I left the laptop
running all night to see if the 0p_000_autorebase.dash would ever finish
(it didn't!). I think I would have noticed if there were any background
windows then, assuming that they would have at least appeared in the
task bar. I think it it is much more likely to be related to
permissions. When setup is running scripts what happens to stdin, is it
closed, is /dev/null redirected to it or is it just left open? Is there
any way for me to see the stdout/stderr of the script that setup is running?

Patrick

On 01/02/2016 05:32, Maarten Jacobs wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> This may not be relevant - but I ran into a very similar issue tonight... Setup appeared to "hang" - until I found out that Eclipse was "helpful" and pointing out to me that something had changed in the environment... And it was patiently waiting for my input.
> 
> The only problem was that the window was hidden under a stack of other windows.
> 
> When you run setup, are you sure there's not some window popped up somewhere - but not to the foreground?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Maarten Jacobs
> 
> ----------------------------------------
>> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
>> From: patrick@spacesurfer.com
>> Subject: Re: upgrades hang forever on 0p_000_autorebase.dash
>> Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2016 22:45:14 +0000
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> It seems that the cygwin setup works fine on one of the machines I tried
>> (windows 8.1). However on the other machine I have these issues (even on
>> a fresh install). The other machine is a work machine (windows 7). I do
>> not have access to the admin user, I run the install from my account.
>> However, the machine has some software (possibly avecto) that lets me
>> run it with what it calls admin privileges. Whenever I run setup it
>> blocks on the 0p_000_autorebase.dash script and I have to kill the dash
>> process for setup to finish. Is there any way for me to see the
>> stdout/stderr of the script that setup is running?
>>
>> regards,
>> Patrick
>>
>>> Patrick Mackinlay <patrick <at> spacesurfer.com> writes:
>>>> It requires user input because the file
>>>> /var/cache/rebase/rebase_dyn
>>>> is created read only the first time and then the second time a rm
>>>> requires user confirmation.
>>>
>>> When run from setup then rm should not prompt (and it doesn't for my
>>> installations), at least not if the permissions on the directory are>
>> correct
>>> and you always run it under the same UID. I could add a "-f", but...
>>>
>>> You seem to have some borked ACL on your Cygwin installation (i.e. a>
>> fresh
>>> installation shouldn't have these) or something's wrong with the UID
>>> settings (maybe mopve /etc/passwd and /etc/group files). Do you run
>>> setup.exe as administrator? Is this a system-wide or user installation?
>>>
>>> Also the latest snapshot changes the handling of the Administrator and
>>> SYSTEM accounts to resolve some issues with intended vs. effective group
>>> rights and ACL mask computation.
>>
>>
>>> Regard,
>>> Achim.
>>
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