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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