Any fix/work-around for post-install hang problem, yet?

Glenn Murray gmurray@Mines.EDU
Wed Mar 3 23:17:00 GMT 2004


On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Glenn Murray wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm suffering the same problem as in this thread:
> > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-12/msg00215.html
> > and as described in this thread, too:
> > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg00868.html
> >
> > This problem always occurs on my XP boxes.  Updating Cygwin,
> > reinstalling Cygwin, and rebooting do not help.  Recently I had a
> > working Cygwin on an XP box, installed MS's IE6 service/security
> > pack, bash started being flaky, and when I updated Cygwin,
> > post-install hung as described in the threads above and bash
> > continues its flakiness.
> >
> > I couldn't find anything in the archives recently.  Has anyone
> > found a work-around for this?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Glenn
>
> Glenn,
>
> Please review
>
> > Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
>
> and follow the directions there to tell us about your system.  Also,
> please attach /var/log/setup.log.full from a setup session where
> postinstall scripts hung (note: that file is overwritten every time you
> run setup, and you may need to kill the hung bash/sh processes in the task
> manager to allow setup to complete).
> 	Igor
> P.S. "flaky" is a very vague description.  Concrete examples that would
> allow others to reproduce the problem, along with the information from the
> problem reporting guidelines above, would be much more helpful.

On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Larry Hall wrote:

> At 12:55 PM 3/3/2004, you wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I'm suffering the same problem as in this thread:
> >http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-12/msg00215.html
> >and as described in this thread, too:
> >http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg00868.html
> >
> >This problem always occurs on my XP boxes.  Updating Cygwin,
> >reinstalling Cygwin, and rebooting do not help.  Recently I had a
> >working Cygwin on an XP box, installed MS's IE6 service/security
> >pack, bash started being flaky, and when I updated Cygwin,
> >post-install hung as described in the threads above and bash
> >continues its flakiness.
> >
> >I couldn't find anything in the archives recently.  Has anyone
> >found a work-around for this?
>
>
> There was lots of talk in the email archives about this issue and lots
> of work on it too.  Did you see:
>
>   <http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg01166.html>
>
> ?
>
> If this isn't your solution, please provide some information on what's
> hanging and what you have installed, a la:
>
>
> >Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --
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>

Igor and Larry,

Thanks for the responses.  I reproduce this problem by running
setup.exe and it hangs every time, like I said.  I am running the
most recent versions of everything, like I said (setup says
cygwin 1.5.7-1).  As I said, it happens on WinXP boxes;  I
haven't seen it on my Win2K boxes.  I've attached setup.log.

Yes, I saw http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg01166.html
when I was browsing the archives.

Michael Robbert (from my first referenced thread) has just told
me he might have the time to work on this;  I do not.  I was just
hoping to get lucky and find a quick fix.

Cheers,
Glenn

P.S. "Flaky" is a vague description, but accurate.  When running
cygwin.bat sometimes the bash prompt appears, sometimes not,
sometimes it opens in /usr/bin, sometimes in $HOME, sometimes ssh
works, sometimes it doesn't; etc.  Setup.exe has put the system
into an unstable (i.e., flaky) state.
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2004/03/03 14:55:13 Starting cygwin install, version 2.416

2004/03/03 14:55:13 Current Directory: C:\cygwin\installFiles

2004/03/03 14:55:13 Changing gid to Users

2004/03/03 14:55:13 Could not open service McShield for query, start and stop. McAfee may not be installed, or we don't have access.

2004/03/03 14:55:14 source: network install

2004/03/03 14:55:14 root: C:\cygwin binary system

2004/03/03 14:55:14 Selected local directory: C:\cygwin\installFiles

2004/03/03 14:55:15 net: Direct

2004/03/03 14:55:15 site: http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/cygwin

2004/03/03 14:55:17 Visited: 89 nodes out of 385.

2004/03/03 14:55:17 Dependency ordered install:

2004/03/03 14:55:17 base-passwd

2004/03/03 14:55:17 libgettextpo0

2004/03/03 14:55:17 libintl1

2004/03/03 14:55:17 texinfo

2004/03/03 14:55:17 _update-info-dir

2004/03/03 14:55:17 libiconv2

2004/03/03 14:55:17 libintl2

2004/03/03 14:55:17 cygwin

2004/03/03 14:55:17 ash

2004/03/03 14:55:17 terminfo

2004/03/03 14:55:17 libncurses5

2004/03/03 14:55:17 fileutils

2004/03/03 14:55:17 termcap

2004/03/03 14:55:17 bash

2004/03/03 14:55:17 sh-utils

2004/03/03 14:55:17 textutils

2004/03/03 14:55:17 findutils

2004/03/03 14:55:17 sed

2004/03/03 14:55:17 base-files

2004/03/03 14:55:17 libbz2_1

2004/03/03 14:55:17 bzip2

2004/03/03 14:55:17 check

2004/03/03 14:55:17 clear

2004/03/03 14:55:17 crypt

2004/03/03 14:55:17 libgdbm4

2004/03/03 14:55:17 cvs

2004/03/03 14:55:17 libpopt0

2004/03/03 14:55:17 cygipc

2004/03/03 14:55:17 cygutils

2004/03/03 14:55:17 diff

2004/03/03 14:55:17 diffutils

2004/03/03 14:55:17 ed

2004/03/03 14:55:17 editrights

2004/03/03 14:55:17 file

2004/03/03 14:55:17 gawk

2004/03/03 14:55:17 libgdbm3

2004/03/03 14:55:17 gdbm

2004/03/03 14:55:17 libpcre

2004/03/03 14:55:17 grep

2004/03/03 14:55:17 groff

2004/03/03 14:55:17 gzip

2004/03/03 14:55:17 libjpeg62

2004/03/03 14:55:17 libjpeg6b

2004/03/03 14:55:17 jpeg

2004/03/03 14:55:17 libpcre0

2004/03/03 14:55:17 less

2004/03/03 14:55:17 libdb3.1

2004/03/03 14:55:17 libdb4.1

2004/03/03 14:55:17 libgdbm

2004/03/03 14:55:17 libgdbm-devel

2004/03/03 14:55:17 libkpathsea3

2004/03/03 14:55:17 libkpathsea3abi13

2004/03/03 14:55:17 libncurses6

2004/03/03 14:55:17 libncurses7

2004/03/03 14:55:17 zlib

2004/03/03 14:55:17 libpng12

2004/03/03 14:55:17 libreadline4

2004/03/03 14:55:17 libreadline5

2004/03/03 14:55:17 libtiff4

2004/03/03 14:55:17 libtiff3

2004/03/03 14:55:17 libtiff-devel

2004/03/03 14:55:17 login

2004/03/03 14:55:17 mktemp

2004/03/03 14:55:17 man

2004/03/03 14:55:17 minires

2004/03/03 14:55:17 more

2004/03/03 14:55:17 ncurses

2004/03/03 14:55:17 openssl

2004/03/03 14:55:17 openssh

2004/03/03 14:55:17 openssl096

2004/03/03 14:55:17 pcre-doc

2004/03/03 14:55:17 pcre

2004/03/03 14:55:17 perl

2004/03/03 14:55:17 pine

2004/03/03 14:55:17 postgresql

2004/03/03 14:55:17 rcs

2004/03/03 14:55:17 readline

2004/03/03 14:55:17 rsync

2004/03/03 14:55:17 rxvt

2004/03/03 14:55:17 tar

2004/03/03 14:55:17 tetex-bin

2004/03/03 14:55:17 tetex-tiny

2004/03/03 14:55:17 tetex

2004/03/03 14:55:17 tiff

2004/03/03 14:55:17 unzip

2004/03/03 14:55:17 wget

2004/03/03 14:55:17 which

2004/03/03 14:55:17 whois

2004/03/03 14:55:17 zip

2004/03/03 14:55:17 running: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c /etc/postinstall/base-files-mketc.sh

2004/03/03 14:55:21 mbox note: Nothing needed to be installed

2004/03/03 14:55:22 Ending cygwin install

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