Is 1.7 ready?/Installation Issues

Fri Dec 18 05:20:00 GMT 2009

Hi Folks,

I got the latest libstdc and have 1.7 now running on my work system 
thanks to your advice - it was invaluable. Thanks guys.

I'd like to bring the conversation back to why base-files-mketc.sh / 
base-files-profile.sh had the wrong permissions to start with. Are they 
being installed with the wrong permissions or is something running bash 
-c to execute the post install procedure when it should be omitting the 
-c as Ken suggested in the manual procedure?

Just want to check in case there is a lingering problem under the covers 
since I did do the install numerous times and got the same behaviour...

Cheers
Dave

Dave & Diane wrote:

> 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/ : 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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