Install hangs

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

Eric Mader wrote:
> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>> Eric Mader wrote:
>>>
>>> In the process of messing around w/ the scripts in /etc/postinstall I 
>>> ran into a problem w/ find. In an attempt to find scripts where both 
>>> the '.sh' and the '.sh.done' versions existed I typed the command:
>>>
>>> find . -name "*.sh" -exec ls \{\}.done \;
>>>
>>> This caused some strange error messages, and left some stalled 
>>> processes running 'find' behind. (I can't run this command now 
>>> because the successful run of setup.exe cleaned them all up, but 
>>> here's the output of a similar use of '-exec' in find:
>>>
>>> $ find . -name "*.sh.done" -exec ls \{\} \;
>>>     197 [main] find 16764 fhandler_dev_zero::fixup_mmap_after_fork: 
>>> requested 0x
>>> 430000 != 0x0 mem alloc base 0x430000, state 0x2000, size 1040384, 
>>> Win32 error 4
>>> 87
>>>     543 [main] find 16764 c:\cygwin\bin\find.exe: *** fatal error - 
>>> c:\cygwin\bi
>>> n\find.exe: *** recreate_mmaps_after_fork_failed
>>>
>>> It takes quite a long time to get a command prompt back after these 
>>> error messages, and it leaves behing a stalled process.
>>>
>>> Is this releated somehow to my many failed attempts to run setup.exe, 
>>> or is it a know problem w/ find?
>>>
>>
>> Could be a rebase issue.  Try installing the package, read the README, 
>> and
>> follow the instructions for rebasing your system.
> 
> I ran rebaseall (w/ no arguments) and the above find command still fails 
> in the same way. Anything else I can try?


Perhaps this will help:
<http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2005-09/msg00945.html>


> Is there a way to save the list of installed packages and do a clean 
> install?

See /etc/setup/install.db

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