Install failing and leaving unusable system

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

Julian Hall wrote:
> I know this has been discussed here before, but it seems that it's 
> something that happens to a lot of people, so it should probably be 
> fixed.  It seems as though a fairly simple update to the setup program 
> might be helpful to people who have the problem.  In script.cc, there 
> are currently lines that read:
> 
>  if (retval)
>    log(LOG_PLAIN) << "abnormal exit: exit code=" << retval << endLog;;
> 
>  /* if file exists then delete it otherwise just ignore no file error */
>  io_stream::remove ("cygfile://" + scriptName + ".done");
> 
>  io_stream::move ("cygfile://" + scriptName,
>                   "cygfile://" + scriptName + ".done");
> 
> I'd suggest changing them so that the destination filename in the case 
> of an abnormal exit is different (e.g. scriptName + ".failed").  A flag 
> could then be set so that a dialog box is shown at the end, stating that 
> errors occurred running the postinstall scripts, and directing users to 
> a simple shell script that can be run after rebooting, which will run 
> all the /etc/postinstall/*.failed scripts and move them to appropraite 
> ".done" names.
> 
> Does that sound like a sensible idea?


Sounds reasonable to me.  Want to create a patch for the maintainers to
review?

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