Installer of Cygwin 64 seems to freeze when executing /etc/postinstall/xlaunch.sh - version 2.874

[Jean-Paul Bouchet]

Hello,
May be is the value of PATH the problem?
When I launch, by a double click on the bash.exe file, a cygwin bash 
shell (C:\cygwin64\bin\bash.exe) and I display $PATH, I don't find any 
cygwin directory in the list, but a list of windows directories:
/cygdrive/c/Windows/system32:/cygdrive/c/Windows:/cygdrive/c/Windows/System32/Wbem: 
...

So, when I execute in the cygwin bash shell  the command '/bin/sh -x 
/etc/postinstall/xlaunch.sh.done', I get the same errors than those I 
get when I execute 'C:\cygwin64\bin\sh -x 
/etc/postinstall/xlaunch.sh.done' in the windows command interpreter:
the command 'uname' is unknown.

If I change the value of PATH with PATH=/cygdrive/c/cygwin64/bin:$PATH 
and export PATH, the execution of 'sh -x 
/etc/postinstall/xlaunch.sh.done' don't give any errors.

What is the value of PATH when the installation executes the set of 
postinstall scripts ?

Jean-Paul Bouchet

On 03/06/2016 14:41, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 02/06/2016 17:22, Jean-Paul Bouchet wrote:
>> Please find attached the script /etc/postinstall/xlaunch.sh and the
>> output of its execution (file postinstall_xlaunch.txt).
>
> Thanks.
>
> I guess this doesn't reproduce the problem (freezing), as this is just 
> what I would expect to see when running the script without the PATH set?
>
> Perhaps you could try again from a cygwin bash shell?
>


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