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RE: Cygwin installation hanging during post-install shell scripts


If anyone is interested, this issue was resolved with the new Cygwin
installer that was released yesterday.

-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf
Of Kyle Getz
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 2:16 PM
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Cygwin installation hanging during post-install shell scripts

I'm trying to install Cygwin on a Windows XP machine, but the install
hangs every time with these symptoms:

   * The installation makes it to about 97% 
   * The window says that the install is running some post-install shell
     script (I've seen coreutils.sh and update-dir-info.sh) 
   * Task Manager shows nothing running (System Idle Process is at 99% 
     usage) 
   * Both shell scripts contain a call to 'system-info', which shows up
in 
     Task Manager

I was unable to kill install-info.exe from Task Manager, so I had to
kill sh.exe instead.  After I did that, the installation finished, but
I'm worried that something important got skipped.

The logfile doesn't have anything useful:

...
2007/07/02 10:00:37 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c
/etc/postinstall/tar.sh
2007/07/02 10:00:37 abnormal exit: exit code=0
2007/07/02 10:00:37 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c
/etc/postinstall/terminfo.sh
2007/07/02 10:00:37 abnormal exit: exit code=0
2007/07/02 10:00:37 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c
/etc/postinstall/update-info-dir.sh
2007/07/02 10:10:58 mbox note: Installation Complete
2007/07/02 10:11:01 Ending cygwin install


Anyone have any ideas?

- Kyle Getz

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