Any fix/work-around for post-install hang problem, yet?

Any fix/work-around for post-install hang problem, yet?

[Glenn Murray]

Hi,

I'm suffering the same problem as in this thread:
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-12/msg00215.html
and as described in this thread, too:
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg00868.html

This problem always occurs on my XP boxes.  Updating Cygwin,
reinstalling Cygwin, and rebooting do not help.  Recently I had a
working Cygwin on an XP box, installed MS's IE6 service/security
pack, bash started being flaky, and when I updated Cygwin,
post-install hung as described in the threads above and bash
continues its flakiness.

I couldn't find anything in the archives recently.  Has anyone
found a work-around for this?

Thanks,
Glenn
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Re: Any fix/work-around for post-install hang problem, yet?

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Glenn Murray wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm suffering the same problem as in this thread:
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-12/msg00215.html
> and as described in this thread, too:
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg00868.html
>
> This problem always occurs on my XP boxes.  Updating Cygwin,
> reinstalling Cygwin, and rebooting do not help.  Recently I had a
> working Cygwin on an XP box, installed MS's IE6 service/security
> pack, bash started being flaky, and when I updated Cygwin,
> post-install hung as described in the threads above and bash
> continues its flakiness.
>
> I couldn't find anything in the archives recently.  Has anyone
> found a work-around for this?
>
> Thanks,
> Glenn

Glenn,

Please review

> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html

and follow the directions there to tell us about your system.  Also,
please attach /var/log/setup.log.full from a setup session where
postinstall scripts hung (note: that file is overwritten every time you
run setup, and you may need to kill the hung bash/sh processes in the task
manager to allow setup to complete).
	Igor
P.S. "flaky" is a very vague description.  Concrete examples that would
allow others to reproduce the problem, along with the information from the
problem reporting guidelines above, would be much more helpful.
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Re: Any fix/work-around for post-install hang problem, yet?

[Larry Hall]

At 12:55 PM 3/3/2004, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm suffering the same problem as in this thread:
>http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-12/msg00215.html
>and as described in this thread, too:
>http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg00868.html
>
>This problem always occurs on my XP boxes.  Updating Cygwin,
>reinstalling Cygwin, and rebooting do not help.  Recently I had a
>working Cygwin on an XP box, installed MS's IE6 service/security
>pack, bash started being flaky, and when I updated Cygwin,
>post-install hung as described in the threads above and bash
>continues its flakiness.
>
>I couldn't find anything in the archives recently.  Has anyone
>found a work-around for this?


There was lots of talk in the email archives about this issue and lots
of work on it too.  Did you see:

  <http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg01166.html>

?

If this isn't your solution, please provide some information on what's
hanging and what you have installed, a la:


>Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html






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Re: Any fix/work-around for post-install hang problem, yet?

[Glenn Murray]

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On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Glenn Murray wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm suffering the same problem as in this thread:
> > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-12/msg00215.html
> > and as described in this thread, too:
> > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg00868.html
> >
> > This problem always occurs on my XP boxes.  Updating Cygwin,
> > reinstalling Cygwin, and rebooting do not help.  Recently I had a
> > working Cygwin on an XP box, installed MS's IE6 service/security
> > pack, bash started being flaky, and when I updated Cygwin,
> > post-install hung as described in the threads above and bash
> > continues its flakiness.
> >
> > I couldn't find anything in the archives recently.  Has anyone
> > found a work-around for this?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Glenn
>
> Glenn,
>
> Please review
>
> > Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
>
> and follow the directions there to tell us about your system.  Also,
> please attach /var/log/setup.log.full from a setup session where
> postinstall scripts hung (note: that file is overwritten every time you
> run setup, and you may need to kill the hung bash/sh processes in the task
> manager to allow setup to complete).
> 	Igor
> P.S. "flaky" is a very vague description.  Concrete examples that would
> allow others to reproduce the problem, along with the information from the
> problem reporting guidelines above, would be much more helpful.

On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Larry Hall wrote:

> At 12:55 PM 3/3/2004, you wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I'm suffering the same problem as in this thread:
> >http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-12/msg00215.html
> >and as described in this thread, too:
> >http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg00868.html
> >
> >This problem always occurs on my XP boxes.  Updating Cygwin,
> >reinstalling Cygwin, and rebooting do not help.  Recently I had a
> >working Cygwin on an XP box, installed MS's IE6 service/security
> >pack, bash started being flaky, and when I updated Cygwin,
> >post-install hung as described in the threads above and bash
> >continues its flakiness.
> >
> >I couldn't find anything in the archives recently.  Has anyone
> >found a work-around for this?
>
>
> There was lots of talk in the email archives about this issue and lots
> of work on it too.  Did you see:
>
>   <http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg01166.html>
>
> ?
>
> If this isn't your solution, please provide some information on what's
> hanging and what you have installed, a la:
>
>
> >Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --
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> RFK Partners, Inc.                      (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
> 838 Washington Street                   (508) 893-9889 - FAX
> Holliston, MA 01746
>

Igor and Larry,

Thanks for the responses.  I reproduce this problem by running
setup.exe and it hangs every time, like I said.  I am running the
most recent versions of everything, like I said (setup says
cygwin 1.5.7-1).  As I said, it happens on WinXP boxes;  I
haven't seen it on my Win2K boxes.  I've attached setup.log.

Yes, I saw http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg01166.html
when I was browsing the archives.

Michael Robbert (from my first referenced thread) has just told
me he might have the time to work on this;  I do not.  I was just
hoping to get lucky and find a quick fix.

Cheers,
Glenn

P.S. "Flaky" is a vague description, but accurate.  When running
cygwin.bat sometimes the bash prompt appears, sometimes not,
sometimes it opens in /usr/bin, sometimes in $HOME, sometimes ssh
works, sometimes it doesn't; etc.  Setup.exe has put the system
into an unstable (i.e., flaky) state.

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2004/03/03 14:55:13 Starting cygwin install, version 2.416
2004/03/03 14:55:13 Current Directory: C:\cygwin\installFiles
2004/03/03 14:55:13 Changing gid to Users
2004/03/03 14:55:13 Could not open service McShield for query, start and stop. McAfee may not be installed, or we don't have access.
2004/03/03 14:55:14 source: network install
2004/03/03 14:55:14 root: C:\cygwin binary system
2004/03/03 14:55:14 Selected local directory: C:\cygwin\installFiles
2004/03/03 14:55:15 net: Direct
2004/03/03 14:55:15 site: http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/cygwin
2004/03/03 14:55:17 Visited: 89 nodes out of 385.
2004/03/03 14:55:17 Dependency ordered install:
2004/03/03 14:55:17 base-passwd
2004/03/03 14:55:17 libgettextpo0
2004/03/03 14:55:17 libintl1
2004/03/03 14:55:17 texinfo
2004/03/03 14:55:17 _update-info-dir
2004/03/03 14:55:17 libiconv2
2004/03/03 14:55:17 libintl2
2004/03/03 14:55:17 cygwin
2004/03/03 14:55:17 ash
2004/03/03 14:55:17 terminfo
2004/03/03 14:55:17 libncurses5
2004/03/03 14:55:17 fileutils
2004/03/03 14:55:17 termcap
2004/03/03 14:55:17 bash
2004/03/03 14:55:17 sh-utils
2004/03/03 14:55:17 textutils
2004/03/03 14:55:17 findutils
2004/03/03 14:55:17 sed
2004/03/03 14:55:17 base-files
2004/03/03 14:55:17 libbz2_1
2004/03/03 14:55:17 bzip2
2004/03/03 14:55:17 check
2004/03/03 14:55:17 clear
2004/03/03 14:55:17 crypt
2004/03/03 14:55:17 libgdbm4
2004/03/03 14:55:17 cvs
2004/03/03 14:55:17 libpopt0
2004/03/03 14:55:17 cygipc
2004/03/03 14:55:17 cygutils
2004/03/03 14:55:17 diff
2004/03/03 14:55:17 diffutils
2004/03/03 14:55:17 ed
2004/03/03 14:55:17 editrights
2004/03/03 14:55:17 file
2004/03/03 14:55:17 gawk
2004/03/03 14:55:17 libgdbm3
2004/03/03 14:55:17 gdbm
2004/03/03 14:55:17 libpcre
2004/03/03 14:55:17 grep
2004/03/03 14:55:17 groff
2004/03/03 14:55:17 gzip
2004/03/03 14:55:17 libjpeg62
2004/03/03 14:55:17 libjpeg6b
2004/03/03 14:55:17 jpeg
2004/03/03 14:55:17 libpcre0
2004/03/03 14:55:17 less
2004/03/03 14:55:17 libdb3.1
2004/03/03 14:55:17 libdb4.1
2004/03/03 14:55:17 libgdbm
2004/03/03 14:55:17 libgdbm-devel
2004/03/03 14:55:17 libkpathsea3
2004/03/03 14:55:17 libkpathsea3abi13
2004/03/03 14:55:17 libncurses6
2004/03/03 14:55:17 libncurses7
2004/03/03 14:55:17 zlib
2004/03/03 14:55:17 libpng12
2004/03/03 14:55:17 libreadline4
2004/03/03 14:55:17 libreadline5
2004/03/03 14:55:17 libtiff4
2004/03/03 14:55:17 libtiff3
2004/03/03 14:55:17 libtiff-devel
2004/03/03 14:55:17 login
2004/03/03 14:55:17 mktemp
2004/03/03 14:55:17 man
2004/03/03 14:55:17 minires
2004/03/03 14:55:17 more
2004/03/03 14:55:17 ncurses
2004/03/03 14:55:17 openssl
2004/03/03 14:55:17 openssh
2004/03/03 14:55:17 openssl096
2004/03/03 14:55:17 pcre-doc
2004/03/03 14:55:17 pcre
2004/03/03 14:55:17 perl
2004/03/03 14:55:17 pine
2004/03/03 14:55:17 postgresql
2004/03/03 14:55:17 rcs
2004/03/03 14:55:17 readline
2004/03/03 14:55:17 rsync
2004/03/03 14:55:17 rxvt
2004/03/03 14:55:17 tar
2004/03/03 14:55:17 tetex-bin
2004/03/03 14:55:17 tetex-tiny
2004/03/03 14:55:17 tetex
2004/03/03 14:55:17 tiff
2004/03/03 14:55:17 unzip
2004/03/03 14:55:17 wget
2004/03/03 14:55:17 which
2004/03/03 14:55:17 whois
2004/03/03 14:55:17 zip
2004/03/03 14:55:17 running: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c /etc/postinstall/base-files-mketc.sh
2004/03/03 14:55:21 mbox note: Nothing needed to be installed
2004/03/03 14:55:22 Ending cygwin install

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Re: Any fix/work-around for post-install hang problem, yet?

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Glenn Murray wrote:

> On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Glenn Murray wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm suffering the same problem as in this thread:
> > > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-12/msg00215.html
> > > and as described in this thread, too:
> > > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg00868.html
> > >
> > > This problem always occurs on my XP boxes.  Updating Cygwin,
> > > reinstalling Cygwin, and rebooting do not help.  Recently I had a
> > > working Cygwin on an XP box, installed MS's IE6 service/security
> > > pack, bash started being flaky, and when I updated Cygwin,
> > > post-install hung as described in the threads above and bash
> > > continues its flakiness.
> > >
> > > I couldn't find anything in the archives recently.  Has anyone
> > > found a work-around for this?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Glenn
> >
> > Glenn,
> >
> > Please review
> >
> > > Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
> >
> > and follow the directions there to tell us about your system.  Also,
> > please attach /var/log/setup.log.full from a setup session where
> > postinstall scripts hung (note: that file is overwritten every time you
> > run setup, and you may need to kill the hung bash/sh processes in the task
> > manager to allow setup to complete).
> >       Igor
> > P.S. "flaky" is a very vague description.  Concrete examples that would
> > allow others to reproduce the problem, along with the information from the
> > problem reporting guidelines above, would be much more helpful.
>
> On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Larry Hall wrote:
>
> > There was lots of talk in the email archives about this issue and lots
> > of work on it too.  Did you see:
> >
> >   <http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg01166.html>
> >
> > ?
> >
> > If this isn't your solution, please provide some information on what's
> > hanging and what you have installed, a la:
> >
> > >Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
> > --
>
> Igor and Larry,
>
> Thanks for the responses.  I reproduce this problem by running
> setup.exe and it hangs every time, like I said.  I am running the
> most recent versions of everything, like I said (setup says
> cygwin 1.5.7-1).  As I said, it happens on WinXP boxes;  I
> haven't seen it on my Win2K boxes.  I've attached setup.log.
>
> Yes, I saw http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg01166.html
> when I was browsing the archives.
>
> Michael Robbert (from my first referenced thread) has just told
> me he might have the time to work on this;  I do not.  I was just
> hoping to get lucky and find a quick fix.
>
> Cheers,
> Glenn

Glenn,

You have not read either my message or the documentation that both Larry
and I pointed you at carefully enough.  In my message, I requested the
"/var/log/setup.log.full" (note the ".full") from a failed session.  You
have attached the /var/log/setup.log file.  The Cygwin problem reporting
guidelines request that you attach the output of "cygcheck -svr" to your
message, which you have not done.  Please take the time to read the
relevant instructions and supply enough information to help us track down
your problem.  Letting us know exactly which postinstall scripts hang
would also be helpful.

> P.S. "Flaky" is a vague description, but accurate.  When running
> cygwin.bat sometimes the bash prompt appears, sometimes not,
> sometimes it opens in /usr/bin, sometimes in $HOME, sometimes ssh
> works, sometimes it doesn't; etc.  Setup.exe has put the system
> into an unstable (i.e., flaky) state.

Well, I suspect most of the problems are due to the fact that postinstall
scripts didn't run on your system.  A package's installation is not valid
until its postinstall script has run, so the above is no surprise.  Once
we track down the postinstall problem, if your other symptoms persist, we
can revisit them.
	Igor
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RE: Any fix/work-around for post-install hang problem, yet?

[Andrew J Halls]

Hi Guys
	Possible additional information.

	Back last week end I removed totally and did a fresh download and
install of Cygwin on my XP machine.
	I selected everything from the setup screens ( Cygwin and
Cygwin-Gnome), when setup got to the post-install phase it locked up in the
"_update-info-dir" line. That is no cpu being used by setup. I let it run
for over 30 minutes then pressed cancel.

	Thinking that I would have to un-install every thing I re ran setup
and selected uninstall for everything. Instead of uninstalling things all
the post install scripts where run. I then had Cygwin installed and as I
found out later with no history that it was installed according to setup.

This install worked, I compiled a new version of VIM with GTK+ OK.

Thinking that the number of packages had been the problem to get setup
information I have re-installed all the packages in smaller groups.

As things seem to be working OK I have not removed and reinstalled (the
problem with OpenSSH-3.8.p1-1 was occurring before I reinstalled, I had
totally stuffed up Cygwin/X while trying to fault find this.)

Rgds
Andy Halls


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