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From: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Cc: Jean-Paul Bouchet <jean-paul.bouchet@avignon.inra.fr>
Subject: Re: Installer of Cygwin 64 seems to freeze when executing /etc/postinstall/xlaunch.sh - version 2.874
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2016 13:22:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b757f2c6-8492-a7b9-7388-9bfcaa8a0b10@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <574DBD95.1060202@avignon.inra.fr>

On 31/05/2016 17:36, Jean-Paul Bouchet wrote:
> I try to install cygwin 64 on a windows 7 PC in order to let users open
> an X11 session via xlaunch  on a linux server (gdm3).
>
> I have selected only 3 components of X11 to complete the default
> selection : xinit, xlaunch and Xorg server.
>
> The installer seems to freeze when it executes /etc/postinstall/xlaunch.sh.
> Information about the progression of the installation is blocked during
> several minutes with 99% Cygwin - Setup
>
> If I don't cancel the installation, it seems to finish correctly.
>
> 17:36:33   running: C:\cygwin64\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile
> "/etc/postinstall/xlaunch.sh"
> 17:55:47   Changing gid to Administrators
>                  Ending cygwin install
>
> Is it a normal behaviour ?

Thanks for reporting this problem.

No, this is not normal or expected.

Perhaps you could manually run the postinstall script with 'sh -x 
/etc/postinstall/xlaunch.sh.done' to see where it is getting stuck?

-- 
Jon Turney
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer

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       reply	other threads:[~2016-06-02 13:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <574DBD95.1060202@avignon.inra.fr>
2016-06-02 13:22 ` Jon Turney [this message]
2016-06-02 16:24   ` Jean-Paul Bouchet
2016-06-03 12:41     ` Jon Turney
2016-06-03 15:28       ` Jean-Paul Bouchet
2016-06-03 15:59         ` Ken Brown
2016-06-06 13:49         ` Jon Turney

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