From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 395 invoked by alias); 22 Sep 2007 10:22:24 -0000 Received: (qmail 381 invoked by uid 22791); 22 Sep 2007 10:22:22 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from kuber.nabble.com (HELO kuber.nabble.com) (216.139.236.158) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sat, 22 Sep 2007 10:22:18 +0000 Received: from isper.nabble.com ([192.168.236.156]) by kuber.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1IZ27s-0007ra-BT for cygwin@cygwin.com; Sat, 22 Sep 2007 03:22:16 -0700 Message-ID: <12835293.post@talk.nabble.com> Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 10:22:00 -0000 From: lent To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: Cygwin Installation Problems on Windows Vista (gnuplot.sh, texhash and ".bashrc: Bad address") In-Reply-To: <12791093.post@talk.nabble.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Nabble-From: chrislent@gmail.com References: <96c450350704071826qe3e5f5di80b7dd4375619f38@mail.gmail.com> <96c450350704071900s7c559797pcdde0542636db9b8@mail.gmail.com> <12780123.post@talk.nabble.com> <006701c7fad4$a0835200$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> <12786663.post@talk.nabble.com> <12791093.post@talk.nabble.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2007-09/txt/msg00563.txt.bz2 lent wrote: > > Hi, > >>Please point out if I'm wrong or misinformed... > >>I'm trying to trace down the Vista cygwin setup.exe /etc/postinstall/gnuplot.sh "hang forever at 99%" problem. > Well, I think I was wrong about pointing fingers at "install-info". The install-info was a guess and hunting a bit more we find this lovely weblog: http://conorcahill.blogspot.com/2007/07/cygwin-on-microsoft-vista.html Conor's Web Log of Esoterica: Cygwin on Microsoft Vista" In particular: Emphasis added Wednesday, July 04, 2007 http://conorcahill.blogspot.com/2007/07/cygwin-on-microsoft-vista.html Cygwin on Microsoft Vista I've run into a few problems using http://www.cygwin.com Cygwin on http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/ Microsoft Vista on my new laptop: The installation hung during the post-install step "/etc/postinstall/gnuplot.sh". http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=cygwin+postinstall+hang+gnuplot&btnG=Google+Search Researching this problem on the google found an http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-04/msg00753.html article on the cygwin mailing list which worked around the problem by setting the Windows XP compatibility mode on the installation executable. I wasn't comfortable with this solution as it might cause things to not work well later on Vista. So I poked around a bit, turned on the "Command Line" output for the "Processes" tab in the Windows Task Manager and found that the script was hanging on "/usr/bin/texhash", which rebuilds a directory listing used by Tex. I was able to run the command successfully on the cygwin command line, but it was still hung in the installation process. So I used Task Manager to kill the texhash process and the installation continued to a later step "postinstall-ec-fonts-mftraced.sh" where it was trying to run "mktexlsr" - which is the same program. I again used Task Manager to kill that process and the installation now went on to a succesfull completion. Following the install, I went back and ran the texhash program manually, which did require me to change the mode of the files "/var/cache/fonts/ls-R" and "/usr/share/texmf/ls-R" files which had been left read-only when I killed the process. Everything seems to be working fine now. This description matches, and I believe we also saw the "postinsall-ec-fonts-mftraced.sh" failure as well. Wish I had remember the "Command Line" option. Darn! Well, so perhaps the culprit is texhash. Or maybe the victim, as I saw another weird thing with this particular install. I had access to the user's machine again and found in /var/log a number of files. $ find . . ./var ./var/log ./var/log/apache2 ./var/log/setup.log ./var/log/setup.log.full ./var/log/setup.log.postinstallXa01604 ./var/log/setup.log.postinstallXa04116 ./var/log/setup.log.postinstallXa04144 ./var/log/setup.log.postinstallXa04492 ./var/log/setup.log.postinstallXa04892 Looking through these we see quite a few messages of the form: /usr/bin/bash: /cygdrive/c/Users/srtg9/.bashrc: Bad address From: /var/log/setup.log.full (starting at line 3239) 2007/09/19 11:15:15 xemacs-mule-sumo 2007/09/19 11:15:15 xemacs-sumo 2007/09/19 11:15:15 xemacs-tags 2007/09/19 11:15:15 xerces-c-devel 2007/09/19 11:15:15 XmHTML 2007/09/19 11:15:15 xpm-nox 2007/09/19 11:15:16 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c /etc/postinstall/gnuplot. sh /usr/bin/bash: /cygdrive/c/Users/srtg9/.bashrc: Bad address 2007/09/19 11:26:55 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c /etc/postinstall/gsl.sh /usr/bin/bash: /cygdrive/c/Users/srtg9/.bashrc: Bad address install-info: menu item `gsl-ref' already exists, for file `gsl-ref' install-info: menu item `gsl-ref' already exists, for file `gsl-ref' install-info: menu item `gsl-ref' already exists, for file `gsl-ref' install-info: menu item `gsl-ref' already exists, for file `gsl-ref' install-info: menu item `gsl-ref' already exists, for file `gsl-ref' install-info: menu item `gsl-ref' already exists, for file `gsl-ref' 2007/09/19 11:27:00 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c /etc/postinstall/gtk+-devel.sh /usr/bin/bash: /cygdrive/c/Users/srtg9/.bashrc: Bad address I am guessing Bad address would result from trying to execve() a .bashrc and getting an EFAULT. The EFAULT seems come from some problem loading the .bashrc (or perhaps the ".bashrc" filename in an execve() call?). Rather odd :-) Chris "still guessing" Lent -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Cygwin-Installation-Problems-on-Windows-Vista-tf3542482.html#a12835293 Sent from the Cygwin Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/