Setup hangs in postinstall

[Michael Robbert]

Brian,
Thanks for your quick response, but we have done multiple searches on 
google and the list archives. I read every post that I could find about 
the problems in October where setup was hanging during postinstall. That 
is where I got many of my ideas for debugging already i.e. gdb, strace, 
sh -x
The message that you point my to is about an update to bash, I checked 
my version of bash and it is already 2.05b-16. That is what is installed 
by default with the current installer. So, I'm sorry that doesn't lead 
to a solution.

Brian Ford wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Michael Robbert wrote:
> 
> 
>>A co-worker and I are trying to debug a problem that we came across
>>while trying to do a new install of Cygwin on a clients computer. We
>>have the current version of Setup.exe(2.416) and we have tried to
>>install from a couple of mirrors, but even when doing just a base
>>install the process hangs on two postinstall scripts.
>>base-files-mketc.sh and base-files-profile.sh
>>If you hit cancel in setup you end up with a partially working system. I
>>have been able to open a bash shell and kill those processes and the
>>rest of the scripts run fine. I then try to run the scripts manually and
>>they still hang. I have run them with sh -x to see where they're getting
>>stuck and I have found that it is any time they try to assign a variable
>>to the output of a command i.e.: OSNAME="`/bin/uname -s`"
>>I can reproduce the problem with just that line on from a bash or sh
>>shell prompt. I have also tried to strace this command, but I get no
>>output at all. Setting variables to a simple string works fine.
>>
>>What is interesting is that the problem happens on both my laptop and
>>the clients workstation, but not my co-workers laptop. They are all
>>running XP SP1. I also can not reproduce the problem on another laptop
>>that is running Windows 2000 SP4. There are a few less minor patches on
>>my co-workers laptop, but that is the only difference that we can think
>>of. What else can we look at to find out why this problem is happening
>>on two computers, but not others?
>>
> 
> Maybe the mailing list archives or google?
> 
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2003-10/msg00022.html
> 
> Let us know if this does not lead you to the solution.
> 

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