1.7.1 hangs on 000-cygwin-post-install.sh

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jan 15 11:03, Frank Fesevur wrote:
> 2010/1/14 David Sherrets:
> > I too experienced the same problem.
> > The fix for me was this...
> >
> > I have a newer Dell machine. The hardware encryption API DLL
> > (wxvault.dll) interferes with many Cygwin packages.
> > This can be fixed stopping this DLL from loading at startup.
> > (use Autoruns from Microsoft Sysinternals at
> > http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals)
> >
> > I can't take credit for this, as it was my co-workers in Sweden who
> > found the fix, but I though there are many here who might benefit!
> 
> YES!!!!!!! A *BIG* thank you to your Swedish co-worker, and to you for
> telling here!
> 
> This solved the problem for me as well.
> 
> I have a Dell as well, my is almost three years old. That dll was on
> the AppInit tab and it was used by docmgr.exe that can be found as
> "Document Manager" on the Logon tab. I disabled them both and made a
> backup of my cygwin15 installation (including the mount keys in the
> registry).
> 
> After all of this I restarted my Windows, run the setup and upgraded
> to 1.7 without any problem.
> 
> Once again a big thank you!
> 
> Maybe it is an idea to put this on the BLODA list?

It's already in the list:

http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda


Corinna

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