* "setup-x86 --quiet-mode" problems
@ 2018-04-19 16:31 Ulli Horlacher
2018-04-19 16:36 ` Vince Rice
2018-04-19 23:28 ` Brian Inglis
0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Ulli Horlacher @ 2018-04-19 16:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
I have an update script which calls "setup-x86 --quiet-mode".
So far, this works great, but now it tries to install a new mintty.exe,
but one mintty still running (where I started setup-x86), so setup-x86
kills this process... and setup-x86.exe is killed, too, which resulted in
a damaged cygwin installation :-(
I was able to fix it by running setup-x86.exe via Windows Explorer (puhhhh!).
How can I avoid this kind of problem in the future?
I tried it with:
setup-x86 --quiet-mode &
sleep 1
kill -9 $PPID
But setup-x86 was killed again, too.
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* Re: "setup-x86 --quiet-mode" problems
2018-04-19 16:31 "setup-x86 --quiet-mode" problems Ulli Horlacher
@ 2018-04-19 16:36 ` Vince Rice
2018-04-19 23:28 ` Brian Inglis
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From: Vince Rice @ 2018-04-19 16:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
> On Apr 19, 2018, at 11:31 AM, Ulli Horlacher wrote:
>
> I have an update script which calls "setup-x86 --quiet-mode".
> So far, this works great, but now it tries to install a new mintty.exe,
> but one mintty still running (where I started setup-x86), so setup-x86
> kills this process... and setup-x86.exe is killed, too, which resulted in
> a damaged cygwin installation :-(
>
> I was able to fix it by running setup-x86.exe via Windows Explorer (puhhhh!).
>
> How can I avoid this kind of problem in the future?
>
> I tried it with:
>
> setup-x86 --quiet-mode &
> sleep 1
> kill -9 $PPID
>
> But setup-x86 was killed again, too.
The way you fixed it already — don't run setup under mintty (or dash or …).
Setup is not a cygwin program (it's not linked to cygwin1.dll).
It's safest to have all of your cygwin processes stopped when you run setup,
anyway, to prevent problems just like this.
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* Re: "setup-x86 --quiet-mode" problems
2018-04-19 16:31 "setup-x86 --quiet-mode" problems Ulli Horlacher
2018-04-19 16:36 ` Vince Rice
@ 2018-04-19 23:28 ` Brian Inglis
2018-04-20 10:23 ` Ulli Horlacher
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From: Brian Inglis @ 2018-04-19 23:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
On 2018-04-19 10:31, Ulli Horlacher wrote:
> I have an update script which calls "setup-x86 --quiet-mode".
> So far, this works great, but now it tries to install a new mintty.exe,
> but one mintty still running (where I started setup-x86), so setup-x86
> kills this process... and setup-x86.exe is killed, too, which resulted in
> a damaged cygwin installation :-(
> I was able to fix it by running setup-x86.exe via Windows Explorer (puhhhh!).
> How can I avoid this kind of problem in the future?
> I tried it with:
> setup-x86 --quiet-mode &
> sleep 1
> kill -9 $PPID
> But setup-x86 was killed again, too.
cygstart .../setup-x86 --quiet-mode ... && sleep 1 && kill -9 $$ $PPID
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* Re: "setup-x86 --quiet-mode" problems
2018-04-19 23:28 ` Brian Inglis
@ 2018-04-20 10:23 ` Ulli Horlacher
2018-04-22 14:05 ` Andrey Repin
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From: Ulli Horlacher @ 2018-04-20 10:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
On Thu 2018-04-19 (17:28), Brian Inglis wrote:
> cygstart .../setup-x86 --quiet-mode ... && sleep 1 && kill -9 $$ $PPID
Ahh... cygstart does the trick! :-)
I was not aware of this helper program. Good to know!
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* Re: "setup-x86 --quiet-mode" problems
2018-04-20 10:23 ` Ulli Horlacher
@ 2018-04-22 14:05 ` Andrey Repin
2018-04-22 16:28 ` Brian Inglis
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Andrey Repin @ 2018-04-22 14:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ulli Horlacher, cygwin
Greetings, Ulli Horlacher!
> On Thu 2018-04-19 (17:28), Brian Inglis wrote:
>> cygstart .../setup-x86 --quiet-mode ... && sleep 1 && kill -9 $$ $PPID
> Ahh... cygstart does the trick! :-)
> I was not aware of this helper program. Good to know!
In this specific case, it is better to use
cmd /C START "" "$( cygpath -ma ".\\setup-${ARCH}.exe" )" -O -s "${MIRROR%%/}/" $KEYS "$@" &
So that you detach completely from the cygwin process tree.
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Sunday, April 22, 2018 16:43:58
Sorry for my terrible english...
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2018-04-22 14:05 ` Andrey Repin
@ 2018-04-22 16:28 ` Brian Inglis
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From: Brian Inglis @ 2018-04-22 16:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
On 2018-04-22 07:51, Andrey Repin wrote:
>> On Thu 2018-04-19 (17:28), Brian Inglis wrote:
>>> cygstart .../setup-x86 --quiet-mode ... && sleep 1 && kill -9 $$ $PPID
>> Ahh... cygstart does the trick! :-)
>> I was not aware of this helper program. Good to know!
> In this specific case, it is better to use
> cmd /C START "" "$( cygpath -ma ".\\setup-${ARCH}.exe" )" -O -s "${MIRROR%%/}/" $KEYS "$@" &
> So that you detach completely from the cygwin process tree.
That's exactly what cygstart does:
$ cygstart .../setup
$ ps -W | egrep 'COMMAND|setup'
PID PPID PGID WINPID TTY UID STIME COMMAND
7080 0 0 7080 ? 0 10:10:48 C:\...\setup-x86_64.exe
as I use it in a script which kills Cygwin processes after launching setup.
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