Re: NEW DEFECT: Basic cygwin Update Fails to Complete

[Marco Atzeri <marco dot atzeri at gmail dot com>]

Am 25.07.2018 um 12:39 schrieb John Delaney:
> Cygwin Developer Team -
>
> My basic Cygwin update failure means that file redirection does work quite
> right.  I had to manually
> add the cygcheck data.
>
> - John Delaney

Hi John,
you should attach the cygcheck.out not put in line

> Cygwin Developer Team:
>
> I am an experienced UNIX / Linux person who has built many UNIX / Linux
> kernels.
> I have successfully updated my 32-bit Cygwin installation at least 100
> times over the last 25+ years.
>
> As I have done many times before, I attempted to update my 32-bit
> Cygwin installation around midnight 7/24-25/ 2018.
> This time the process failed at about 99% complete. " /etc/postinstall/
> texlive-collection.basic.sh" failed to complete repeatedly
> and consistently.

I have seen similar issues.
There is any recent /var/log/setup.log.run* file ?
It should contain some hint of the problem.

What is the output of
  grep wow64 /proc/self/maps | head -n1 | awk '{ print $1}'

and
 rebase -si | awk '{print $3}'| head -n 5


> time  cygcheck -s -v -r
>
> Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics
> Current System Time: Wed Jul 25 11:19:40 2018
>
> Windows 10 Home Ver 10.0 Build 17134
>
> Running under WOW64 on AMD64

Have you tried a 64bit installation ?

Regards
Marco


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