RE: Postinstall hangs with bash

2003-10-03 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen \(garbage mail\)
> From: Igor Pechtchanski > On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: > > > Igor? > > > > Have you been able to reproduce the hang using "my" scripts? > Hannu, > > As I said before, I'm unable to reproduce the hang on my machine at all - > setup always runs to completion. O

RE: Postinstall hangs with bash

2003-10-02 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: > Igor? > > Have you been able to reproduce the hang using "my" scripts? > > As I said earlier, they're stripped down versions of > /etc/postintsall/XFree86-bin-icons.sh > obviously there are a number of people having problem

RE: Postinstall hangs with bash

2003-10-02 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen \(garbage mail\)
Igor? Have you been able to reproduce the hang using "my" scripts? As I said earlier, they're stripped down versions of /etc/postintsall/XFree86-bin-icons.sh obviously there are a number of people having problems with that particular script. Hrm!? I think I made it! gzip'ed strace o

Re: Postinstall hangs with bash

2003-10-01 Thread Linda W.
I get the same hang...I downloaded the latest setup, this morning, took all the standard sets and added a few Xfree items (like Xicons). I come home after having had to "go over the hill" (santa cruz to silliputty valley), I find cygwin_setup stuck at 99% complete: Running... No package /etc/pos

RE: Postinstall hangs with bash

2003-10-01 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen \(garbage mail\)
> Hannu, > > Can you reproduce the hang under strace? If so, try to make a copy of the > hanging script (and the one it calls) and pare them down to one or two > commands (they should still reproduce the hang, though). Once you have > that, please attach the strace output from the simple script.

Re: Postinstall hangs with bash

2003-10-01 Thread Geoff Cheshire
$ tail setup.log.full 2003/10/01 12:21:31 xpm-nox 2003/10/01 12:21:31 zip 2003/10/01 12:21:31 zsh 2003/10/01 12:21:32 running: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c /etc/postinstall/myPostinst all3.sh 2003/10/01 12:21:35 mbox note: Nothing needed to be installed + cygpath -w / + strace -o postinstall.strace bash

Re: Postinstall hangs with bash

2003-10-01 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Geoff Cheshire wrote: > FWIW -- I ran your script changes and myPostinstall.sh does hang (as > before). This happens to both by work and home machines (both > Win2k). I have 3 bash instances just sitting there. If I kill them, > setup can continue. > > HTH, > Geoff Geoff,

RE: Postinstall hangs with bash

2003-10-01 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: > > From: Igor Pechtchanski > > > On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: > > > > > > From: Igor Pechtchanski > > > > > > > On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: > > > > > > > > > > FWIW

RE: Postinstall hangs with bash

2003-10-01 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen \(garbage mail\)
> From: Igor Pechtchanski > On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: > > > > From: Igor Pechtchanski > > > > > On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: > > > > > > > FWIW, if you're able to reproduce the hang, I'd be very interested in > > > seeing the

Re: Postinstall hangs with bash

2003-10-01 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 09:18:37AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 03:11:40AM +0200, Bertalan Fodor wrote: > > > I've overwritten sh.exe with bash.exe > > Don't do that. > Umm, aside from being unusual and drastic,

RE: Postinstall hangs with bash

2003-10-01 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: > > From: Igor Pechtchanski > > > On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: > > > > FWIW, if you're able to reproduce the hang, I'd be very interested in > > seeing the results of the experiments outlined in the a

RE: Postinstall hangs with bash

2003-10-01 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen \(garbage mail\)
> From: Igor Pechtchanski > On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: > FWIW, if you're able to reproduce the hang, I'd be very interested in > seeing the results of the experiments outlined in the above message on > your machine... Maybe you could glean something from the

RE: Postinstall hangs with bash

2003-10-01 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: > [snip] > I've done attempts at debugging this, but time has been a huge limitation so > far. IIUC I need to mess around with setup.ini and that particular package. > I need to read up on how this is supposed to work; has not happened

RE: Postinstall hangs with bash

2003-10-01 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen \(garbage mail\)
> From: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak > On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 03:11:40AM +0200, Bertalan Fodor wrote: > > I've overwritten sh.exe with bash.exe > Don't do that. > > > With this setting cygpath hangs in myPostinstall.sh: > > > > ROOT=$(cygpath -w /) > > > > It is interesting. > > > > Using sh it is ok.

Re: Postinstall hangs with bash

2003-10-01 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 03:11:40AM +0200, Bertalan Fodor wrote: > > I've overwritten sh.exe with bash.exe > Don't do that. Umm, aside from being unusual and drastic, why not? bash should be fully sh-compatible -- hey, it's used on Linux instea

Re: Postinstall hangs with bash

2003-10-01 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 03:11:40AM +0200, Bertalan Fodor wrote: > I've overwritten sh.exe with bash.exe Don't do that. > With this setting cygpath hangs in myPostinstall.sh: > > ROOT=$(cygpath -w /) > > It is interesting. > > Using sh it is ok. $ ROOT=$(cygpath -w /) $ echo $ROOT D:\cygwin WFM

Postinstall hangs with bash

2003-09-30 Thread Bertalan Fodor
I've overwritten sh.exe with bash.exe With this setting cygpath hangs in myPostinstall.sh: ROOT=$(cygpath -w /) It is interesting. Using sh it is ok. Bert -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: