I stand (actually I'm sitting) corrected. :) The reason I deleted the .sh script was because it would never run to completion on subsequent installs. I also forgot to add that I went though and selected reinstall for all my packages to avoid the problem you pointed out. It took a while, but everything is working for me.
Sincerely, Brian S. Wilson =================================================================== Home: (678) 376-9258 Cell: (678) 232-9357 wil...@ds.net =================================================================== ---------- Original Message ----------- From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com> To: cygwin@cygwin.com Sent: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:13:03 -0500 Subject: Re: Windows 7 > On 01/29/2010 08:45 PM, Brian Wilson wrote: > > I had a similar problem upgrading on XP. I think my issue was related to a > > heap space allocation issue which prevents the shell from running during the > > installation. I found that failed installations left shell processes running, > > but not doing anything useful. > > > > Check the documentation as I believe there is a fix for the heap space issue. > > In my case, I killed these useless shells and that allowed the Cygwin bash > > shell to start up with out heap space errors. I cleaned out the > > /etc/postinstall directory by removing any shell scripts (rm *.sh) and > > rerunning the setup. Cygwin installed okay for me after that. > > There's no reason to remove postinstall scripts and, in fact, very > good reason to not do so - your installation could be incomplete. > If things are working for you and you have no complaints, there's no > reason to revisit this issue but in case others reading this thread > thought this would be a good thing to try, I wanted something on > record that would recommend against it. > > -- > Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com > RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office > 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX > Holliston, MA 01746 > > _____________________________________________________________________ > > A: Yes. > > Q: Are you sure? > >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. > >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? > > -- > 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 ------- End of Original Message ------- -- 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
