From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21966 invoked by alias); 21 Jan 2016 19:56:18 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 21859 invoked by uid 89); 21 Jan 2016 19:56:17 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=dlls, DLLs, H*f:sk:CANnLRd, cwd X-HELO: limerock04.mail.cornell.edu Received: from limerock04.mail.cornell.edu (HELO limerock04.mail.cornell.edu) (128.84.13.244) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 19:56:15 +0000 X-CornellRouted: This message has been Routed already. Received: from authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (granite4.serverfarm.cornell.edu [10.16.197.9]) by limerock04.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4_cu) with ESMTP id u0LJuCSA019689 for ; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 14:56:13 -0500 Received: from [10.13.22.4] (50-192-26-105-static.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [50.192.26.105]) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id u0LJuBK4019296 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 14:56:12 -0500 Subject: Re: New cygwin install hanging on postinstall To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: From: Ken Brown Message-ID: <56A137DF.9050901@cornell.edu> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 21:29:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-01/txt/msg00278.txt.bz2 On 1/21/2016 12:40 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> On 20 January 2016 at 17:06, KARR, DAVID wrote: >>> I was installing cygwin for the first time on a Win7-32bit box. >> It is hanging in postinstall, with "0/Perpetual" and >> "/etc/postinstall/0p_texlive_prep.dash. I've tried this twice now, >> and it hangs effectively forever on this step (waited 15-20 minutes >> each time). What other information could I provide? I looked at >> the end of the setup.log file, but that just indicates that >> installation was complete. > While it's sitting here, I dumped out "/var/log/setup.log.full". Here is the end of the file: > ---------------- > The following DLLs couldn't be rebased because they were in use: > /usr/bin/cygssp-0.dll > /usr/bin/cygperl5_22.dll > /usr/bin/cyggcc_s-1.dll > /usr/bin/cygcrypt-0.dll > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.22/i686-cygwin-threads-64int/auto/List/Util/Util. > dll > /usr/lib/perl5/5.22/i686-cygwin-threads-64int/auto/IO/IO.dll > /usr/lib/perl5/5.22/i686-cygwin-threads-64int/auto/File/Glob/Glob.dll > /usr/lib/perl5/5.22/i686-cygwin-threads-64int/auto/Fcntl/Fcntl.dll > /usr/lib/perl5/5.22/i686-cygwin-threads-64int/auto/Encode/Encode.dll > /usr/lib/perl5/5.22/i686-cygwin-threads-64int/auto/Digest/MD5/MD5.dll > /usr/lib/perl5/5.22/i686-cygwin-threads-64int/auto/Cwd/Cwd.dll There's your problem. There were Cygwin processes running when you did the most recent install, so the _autorebase script couldn't do its job. You need to do a full rebase before trying again. See the instructions in https://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-01/msg00216.html Ken -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple