New cygwin install hanging on postinstall

[Ken Brown]

On 1/21/2016 12:40 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> On 20 January 2016 at 17:06, KARR, DAVID <dk068x@att.com> wrote:
>>> I was installing cygwin for the first time on a Win7-32bit box.
>> It is hanging in postinstall, with "0/Perpetual" and
>> "/etc/postinstall/0p_texlive_prep.dash.  I've tried this twice now,
>> and it hangs effectively forever on this step (waited 15-20 minutes
>> each time).  What other information could I provide?  I looked at
>> the end of the setup.log file, but that just indicates that
>> installation was complete.

> While it's sitting here, I dumped out "/var/log/setup.log.full".  Here is the end of the file:
> ----------------
> The following DLLs couldn't be rebased because they were in use:
>    /usr/bin/cygssp-0.dll
>    /usr/bin/cygperl5_22.dll
>    /usr/bin/cyggcc_s-1.dll
>    /usr/bin/cygcrypt-0.dll
>    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.22/i686-cygwin-threads-64int/auto/List/Util/Util.
> dll
>    /usr/lib/perl5/5.22/i686-cygwin-threads-64int/auto/IO/IO.dll
>    /usr/lib/perl5/5.22/i686-cygwin-threads-64int/auto/File/Glob/Glob.dll
>    /usr/lib/perl5/5.22/i686-cygwin-threads-64int/auto/Fcntl/Fcntl.dll
>    /usr/lib/perl5/5.22/i686-cygwin-threads-64int/auto/Encode/Encode.dll
>    /usr/lib/perl5/5.22/i686-cygwin-threads-64int/auto/Digest/MD5/MD5.dll
>    /usr/lib/perl5/5.22/i686-cygwin-threads-64int/auto/Cwd/Cwd.dll

There's your problem.  There were Cygwin processes running when you did 
the most recent install, so the _autorebase script couldn't do its job.

You need to do a full rebase before trying again.  See the instructions in

   https://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-01/msg00216.html

Ken


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