setup hangs during postinstall

[Brian Ford]

Christopher Faylor wrote:

>Have we ever gotten a 'ps -ef' when setup.exe is hung?  It would be nice
>to know if it is sh or bash that is having problems or cygpath itself.
>
>I can't find one of these in the archives but I could easily have missed
>it.
>
I don't understand how that will tell you what is hung, but here you go.
I am pretty sure it is cygpath.

ford@sybilxpc ~
$ ps -ef
     UID     PID    PPID TTY     STIME COMMAND
  SYSTEM    1588       1   ?  12:14:19 /usr/sbin/inetd
  SYSTEM    1640    1588   ?  12:14:19 /usr/sbin/inetd
    ford    1336       1   0  12:15:41 /usr/bin/sh
    ford    1476    1336   0  12:15:41 /usr/bin/sh
    ford    1168    1476   0  12:15:41 /usr/bin/bash
    ford    1760    1168   0  12:15:41 /usr/bin/bash
    ford    1920    1760   0  12:15:41 /usr/bin/cygpath
    ford    1876       1   1  12:15:50 /usr/bin/rxvt
    ford    2032    1876   2  12:15:50 /usr/bin/bash
    ford    1024    2032   2  12:16:07 /usr/bin/gdb
    ford    2012       1   3  12:58:12 /usr/bin/rxvt
    ford    1844    2012   4  12:58:12 /usr/bin/bash
    ford    1068    1844   4  12:58:15 /usr/bin/ps

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Brian Ford
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