Is 1.7 ready?/Installation Issues

[Dave & Diane]

Thanks for the speedy reply Chuck - I'm game!

I did as you suggest and it sped along to some degree but of course a 
lot of tools weren't in the path, so I had to add /usr/bin in to the 
path before running the for loop....

Interestingly when I did, I got:

/bin/bash: /etc/postinstall/base-files-mketc.sh: Permission denied
/bin/bash: /etc/postinstall/base-files-profile.sh: Permission denied

Looking at these I see the exe bit isn't set:

$ ls -l base-files-mketc.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 Dave Trollope 4294967295 665 2009-12-06 04:33 
base-files-mketc.sh
$ ls -l base-files-profile.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 Dave Trollope 4294967295 530 2009-12-06 04:33 
base-files-profile.sh

Other .sh files have the exe bit set... Is there a problem with the 
permissions on the packages being downloaded?

$ ls -l
total 33
-rwxr-xr-x 1 Dave Trollope 4294967295 6154 2009-05-14 05:28 
000-cygwin-post-inst
all.sh.done
-rw-r--r-- 1 Dave Trollope 4294967295  665 2009-12-06 04:33 
base-files-mketc.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 Dave Trollope 4294967295  530 2009-12-06 04:33 
base-files-profile.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 Dave Trollope 4294967295 1063 2009-07-01 20:20 bash.sh.done
-rwxr-xr-x 1 Dave Trollope 4294967295  518 2008-12-17 16:16 
coreutils.sh.done
-rwxr-xr-x 1 Dave Trollope 4294967295  406 2009-10-14 18:19 
font-adobe-dpi75.sh.done
-rwxr-xr-x 1 Dave Trollope 4294967295 1645 2009-10-14 18:22 
font-alias.sh.done
-rwxr-xr-x 1 Dave Trollope 4294967295  399 2009-10-14 19:06 
font-misc-misc.sh.done
-rwxr-xr-x 1 Dave Trollope 4294967295   52 2009-09-24 21:30 
fontconfig.sh.done
-rwxr-xr-x 1 Dave Trollope 4294967295  461 2007-04-06 07:13 man.sh.done
-rwxr-xr-x 1 Dave Trollope 4294967295  805 2009-05-11 06:24 
passwd-grp.sh.done
-rwxr-xr-x 1 Dave Trollope 4294967295  527 2009-11-30 21:48 terminfo.sh.done
-rwxr-xr-x 1 Dave Trollope 4294967295  236 2009-11-26 10:04 
terminfo0.sh.done
-rwxr-xr-x 1 Dave Trollope 4294967295  415 2008-08-10 10:34 
update-info-dir.sh.done

After fixing those permissions and rerunning them things look good. I 
started a cygwin command shell with bash and it detected it was the 
first install and copied the users default settings/profile etc as I 
would expect. I'm still suspicous that packages already marked "done" 
didn't really complete cleanly so I'll check that out tomorrow but I 
suspect there is something in the bash package with the wrong 
permissions or the mketc/profile.sh post install scripts don't for some 
reason get their permissions changed.

Thanks for the help - and I hope this helps you ( or Corinna ;-) ) find 
something that needs before going live with 1.7. I'll let you know if I 
find anything else odd tomorrow as I proceed further with getting it set 
up to take over from 1.5

Cheers
Dave


Charles Wilson wrote:

>Dave & Diane wrote:
>
>  
>
>>I appreciate that I'm not giving you a lot to go on here, but my gut
>>tells me there are some serious gremlins in the guts and in the
>>installation still, it certainly prevents me from moving my 1.5 system
>>to 1.7 at work and I'm worried that if 1.7 is released you'll be
>>overwhelmed with support requests that are eerily similar. This is why I
>>ask if 1.7 is ready for prime time. Perhaps I'm just being unlucky, and
>>thats ok.
>>    
>>
>
>I'm assuming you've checked for BLODAs, and that you have no known or
>suspected BLODAs running.  In that case...
>
>My gut says that the postinstall scripts are encountering the dreaded
>"*** unable to remap" error, which (a) takes a few seconds before cygwin
>gives up and reports it (to setup; you won't see the error message), and
>(b) leaves a zombie process running around. If this occurs every time
>setup tries to run a postinstall script, and there are 40-50 such
>scripts in a typical 'virgin' installation, then...pain.
>
>My suggestion is: if everything has actually been downloaded and
>installed, and only the postinstall scripts are causing problems, then
>kill setup, and manually:
>
>launch cmd
>cd C:\cygwin-1.7\bin
>ash
>rebaseall -v
>for f in /etc/postinstall/*.sh ; do
>  /bin/bash -c $f && mv $f $f.done
>done
>
>But...take all that with a grain of salt.  It's just my gut feeling with
>very little evidence to back it up.
>
>--
>Chuck
>
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