Setup.exe stalls on gettext-runtime.mo

[Bill Ross]

Brian Dessent wrote:
> Bill Ross wrote:
> 
>> When Setup.exe gets to gettext-runtime.mo it stalls indefinitely, blinking:
>>
>>    /usr/share/locale/zh_HK/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-runtime.mo
>>
>> This has happened when downloading from 2 different sites,
> 
> That's quite strange.  I tried to reproduce this with setup.exe
> 2.510.2.2 and the snapshot 2.553 but neither hung there.  I can't think
> of what could cause this.  I think you can rule out download corruption
> since setup.exe would have complained about a md5 sum mismatch, but just
> in case the one I have is:
> 
> e8aa6773706e273d16329451f7c896a9 *gettext-0.15-1.tar.bz2

That's what I have.

> 
> If you want to install this package by hand in the same way setup.exe
> would, you can try the following:
> 
> tar jxvf /path/to/gettext-0.15-1.tar.bz2 -C / >/etc/setup/gettext.lst
> gzip /etc/setup/gettext.lst
> echo "gettext gettext-0.15-1.tar.bz2 0" >>/etc/setup/installed.db
> . /etc/postinstall/gettext.sh && mv /etc/postinstall/gettext.sh{,.done}
> 
> (Note: untested but should work.)  

It's already installed. Just for fun I removed that version. Now the 
installer is stuck on

   Installing
   perl-5.8.7-5
   /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/abbrev.pl  [blinking]

Bill

> 
>> with no effect. I have tried removing gettext from the list to install,
>> but it still gets included.
> 
> Hmm.  It's not a strictly required package, and only useful for
> development, but if it keeps getting added that means some package you
> have installed lists it as a requirement.
> 
> Brian
> 
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