setup.exe keeps hanging

[Alan Ning]

I just tried it now, and I have the same problem.

My CPU usage was at 100%, and it was running multiple instance of sh.exe.

I ran setup.exe again, same thing happened.

... Alan

Reid Thompson wrote:

>Dave Korn wrote:
>  
>
>>----Original Message----
>>    
>>
>>>From: Jurgen Defurne
>>>Sent: 14 April 2005 13:38
>>>      
>>>
>>>I still have the following problems :
>>>
>>>- The installation of cygwin1.dll keeps hanging at 78 %
>>>-- Probably because the installation is not complete,
>>>i cannot get access to my D: drive (which is just a second drive),
>>>but I can get access to my C: drive and to my network drives.
>>>
>>>ANy hints ?
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>  Just one possibility.  It might be the same problem, or it might
>>not. 
>>
>>  Start a bash shell.  Unless your install is really badly
>>damaged, this should still work.
>>
>>  cd into /etc/postinstall.
>>
>>  Is there a file there called "d.sh"?  If so, that's going
>>to have been causing setup to crash when it tries to handle
>>it.  Execute it directly (enter "./d.sh"), then rename it with "mv
>>d.sh d.sh.done". 
>>
>>  After that setup should be able to complete.
>>
>>  In fact, if even your bash shell won't work, use a dos
>>prompt to rename it, then you can run it manually after your
>>setup has completed by using ". /etc/postinstall/d.sh.done"
>>
>>
>>
>>    cheers,
>>      DaveK
>>--
>>Can't think of a witty .sigline today....
>>    
>>
>
>
>(This may or may not be related to your issue...) I also noticed on the
>last update I did that some/all of the packages for ?LaTex? were
>updated -- and that the post-install script (post-texmf.sh) took a VERY
>long time to complete --- i.e. system looked like it was hung, but was
>actually ?building? a lot of postinstall stuff.  This was on a slower
>processor machine ~400mhz -- WAG is it took about 8-10 minutes.  I kept
>thinking setup was hung -- ended up cancelling it and running
>post-texmf.sh by hand ( I also had to comment out line 11, kept getting
>permission denied on removing ~/web2c/*.*fmt).  
>
>reid
>
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