Re: Install hangs

2006-09-29 Thread Eric Mader
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Eric Mader wrote: In the process of messing around w/ the scripts in /etc/postinstall I ran into a problem w/ find. In an attempt to find scripts where both the '.sh' and the '.sh.done' versions existed I typed the command: find . -name "

Re: Install hangs

2006-09-27 Thread Eric Mader
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Eric Mader wrote: I found a bunch of stalled processes running "ash", "bash" and "sh". I killed them all and rebooted for good measure. :-) When I ran setup.exe again, it gets as far as running /etc/postinstall/gnugo.sh and then stall

Re: Install hangs

2006-09-26 Thread Eric Mader
Eric Mader wrote: I was able to get setup.exe unstuck by cd'ing to /etc/preremove, running automake-devel.sh and then deleting it. I had to do this with about three other scripts in this directory before setup.exe would move on to the next phase. It's now happily installing all th

Re: Install hangs

2006-09-26 Thread Eric Mader
Eric Mader wrote: Dave Korn wrote: On 26 September 2006 18:25, Eric Mader wrote: Dave Korn wrote: One other thing: I was updating a previous Cygwin installation. From a quick spot-check it seems that the installer didn't update anything: for example gcc still says it's version 3.

Re: Install hangs

2006-09-26 Thread Eric Mader
Dave Korn wrote: On 26 September 2006 18:25, Eric Mader wrote: Dave Korn wrote: One other thing: I was updating a previous Cygwin installation. From a quick spot-check it seems that the installer didn't update anything: for example gcc still says it's version 3.3.3-1 even

Re: Install hangs

2006-09-26 Thread Eric Mader
Dave Korn wrote: On 26 September 2006 10:20, Chris Taylor wrote: Ooh, yes, I guess I should have pointed that out. Artie, Eric, as long as it's got as far as the postinstall stage, that means most of the installation is there; postinstall scripts are mostly written in bash shell scrip

Re: Install hangs

2006-09-26 Thread Eric Mader
Dave Korn wrote: On 26 September 2006 10:20, Chris Taylor wrote: Dave Korn wrote: On 26 September 2006 05:22, Artie Ziff wrote: I recently experienced a similar scenario, posted a general description of the user experience (with some questions) in an attempt to elicit general comments. I rcv

Install hangs

2006-09-25 Thread Eric Mader
y, and the Task Manager reports setup as "running". I'm running XP SP2 on a TP R50p. Does anybody have any idea what's going on here, and how to work around it? Regards, Eric Mader -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: h