setup hangs when installing keychain

[Karl M]

Hi All...

Thanks Igor. I looked at /var/log/setup.log.full and saw that it failing to 
write to /usr/share/doc/keychain-2.0.3/ChangeLog. The directory had no write 
permission for the owner (administrator).

I have never touched this directory, so I don't know how the permissions got 
broken. Looking around, I also saw some other directories with dxrxrxr (no 
w). I don't know where they are getting it from, perhaps postinstall 
scripts?

I don't know why this would make setup go to 100% CPU and start eating 
memory.

Thanks,

...Karl



>From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>
>Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com
>To: Karl M <karlm30@hotmail.com>
>CC: cygwin@cygwin.com
>Subject: Re: setup hangs when installing keychain
>Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 12:51:54 -0500 (EST)
>
>On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Karl M wrote:
>
> > Hi All...
> >
> > I just tried to update keychain on two machines, both win2k. In both
> > cases, setup (the version currently on the Cygwin web page) downloads
> > and then when it says it is installing, goes to 100% CPU and starts
> > eating up memory until the machine runs out of memory.
> >
> > I tried a reboot, and an uninstall/reinstall to no avail.
> >
> > I looked at the downloaded files (I was looking for a postinstall) and
> > didn't get any clues.
> >
> > I can send a cygcheck, but I'm not sure that is is relevant for this.
> >
> > 1) Can others reproduce this?
> >
> > 2) What else can I do to track it down?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > ...Karl
>
>Karl,
>
>This could be some weird mount issue. or a directory in place where a
>symlink should be in the package...
>
>Can you "Cancel" out of setup?  If so, look at the resultant
>/var/log/setup.log.full for clues.  If not, run setup under gdb - even
>with a non-debug version, the log messages should be printed on the
>console, and you'll able to see them.
>
>I think someone also reported similar behavior when the package file was
>corrupted.  Try downloading the package using 'wget' instead, and check
>its MD5 sum.  Also, try to 'tar tjf' the package tarball.
>	Igor
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