I'll add my report to this. Installing vim 7.3.447-1 from Cygwin setup.exe in CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 1.7.11(0.260/5/3) 2012-02-24 14:05.
Installation hangs at /etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-fontsrecommended.sh. One perl.exe process running that was started by by the installation C:\Documents\Programs\cygwin\bin\perl.exe /usr/bin/updmap --nohash --nomkmap --enable Map=qtm.map, started 5 hours and 8 minutes ago (07:23:30 2012-03-28) Its open file handles are for example File, C:\Documents\Programs\cygwin\var\log\setup.log.postinstallXa01504, 0x1c, Inherit, RW-, \Device\HarddiskVolume2\Documents\Programs\cygwin\var\log\setup.log.postinstallXa01504 File, C:\Documents\Programs\cygwin\usr\share\texmf\scripts\tetex\updmap.pl, 0x114, Inherit, RWD, \Device\HarddiskVolume2\Documents\Programs\cygwin\usr\share\texmf\scripts\tetex\updmap.pl setup.log.postinstallXa01504 here: http://pastebin.com/ex1TiKGL Occasionally a new instance of perl.exe appears for a second. (Two unrelated bash running too, C:\Documents\Programs\cygwin\bin\bash.exe, started 5 hours and 25 minutes ago (07:07:03 2012-03-28) C:\Documents\Programs\cygwin\bin\bash.exe, started 2 hours and 34 minutes ago (09:57:57 2012-03-28)) -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/-ANNOUNCEMENT--Updated%3A-texlive-collection-*-20120312-1-tp33497160p33544823.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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