Re: Setup hangs in postinstall

2003-12-11 Thread Michael Robbert
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Michael Robbert wrote: [snip] P.S. I probably shouldn't mention this, but I had the strangest thing happen to me yesterday. One of the machines that was having this problem, my laptop, stopped having it all of a sudden. This machine is dual

Re: Setup hangs in postinstall

2003-12-11 Thread Michael Robbert
Quoting Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > BTW, if you don't escape the backticks ("`"s), they will be evaluated in > the *current* shell. You should try to run > > strace sh -c 'TEST=`uname -s`' > > (note the single quotes). You can see the difference by comparing the > output of "sh -c

Re: Setup hangs in postinstall

2003-12-10 Thread Michael Robbert
Brian Ford wrote: On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Michael Robbert wrote: Everybody, Some new information I got today. I found another user on our campus that is having the problem on two different machines, but not a third. All of them running Windows XP. So far every machine I have seen it on is running

Re: Setup hangs in postinstall

2003-12-10 Thread Michael Robbert
Antoine Labour wrote: Actually, I still do believe it's the same problem. In some other mails I specified it happens also on single CPU machines. I think other people have been able to reproduce it as well. The fact I expose it in a loop is because the hang is random. It also sometimes happen i

Re: Setup hangs in postinstall

2003-12-09 Thread Michael Robbert
I'm sorry, I don't have a copy of XP to try this with, but it would appear to be a bug in uname (since it gives no output from the commandline) Does it uname hang or just return empty? Is there any error codes? Try: /bin/uname -a ; echo $? Also, could you *attach* (uncompressed) the output of:

Re: Setup hangs in postinstall

2003-12-05 Thread Michael Robbert
, sh -x The message that you point my to is about an update to bash, I checked my version of bash and it is already 2.05b-16. That is what is installed by default with the current installer. So, I'm sorry that doesn't lead to a solution. Brian Ford wrote: On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Michael Rob

Setup hangs in postinstall

2003-12-05 Thread Michael Robbert
A co-worker and I are trying to debug a problem that we came across while trying to do a new install of Cygwin on a clients computer. We have the current version of Setup.exe(2.416) and we have tried to install from a couple of mirrors, but even when doing just a base install the process hangs