Re: postinstall hang

2008-04-04 Thread David Johnstone
> For the moment I only really need the cygwin X-Server - do you think > that will that run ok with the Logitech Process Manager? > Or is that asking for trouble again? Dave, if literally all you need is an X server for Windows, use Xming instead: http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/

RE: postinstall hang

2008-04-03 Thread Popper, Samuel (US SSA)
> Unfortunately, I can't easily uninstall those drivers, since they are > needed and used by other users of the machine. Is there a way to get > the paths to those drivers? I can probably get away with renaming the > files and rebooting long enough to tell if that fixes the problem. Never mind,

RE: postinstall hang

2008-04-03 Thread Popper, Samuel (US SSA)
> SERVICE_NAME: Sentinel > DISPLAY_NAME: Sentinel > SERVICE_NAME: SNTNLUSB > DISPLAY_NAME: Rainbow USB SuperPro > Security/rights management/license control thingy of some sort. It > could > easily have been coded under the mistaken assumption that hooking process > creation is a reasonable me

RE: postinstall hang

2008-04-02 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
[sorry for the post-through, I don't have the original post] > > David Johnstone wrote on 01 April 2008 20:55: > > > For the moment I only really need the cygwin X-Server - do > you think > > that will that run ok with the Logitech Process Manager? > > Or is that asking for trouble again? >

RE: postinstall hang

2008-04-02 Thread Hussein Patwa
> Subject: Re: postinstall hang > > >> "Potential app conflicts: > >> Logitech Process Monitor service > >> Detected: HKLM Registry Key, Named process." > >> > >> So perhaps the problem is there? > > > >THAT'S I

RE: postinstall hang

2008-04-02 Thread Dave Korn
David Johnstone wrote on 01 April 2008 20:55: > For the moment I only really need the cygwin X-Server - > do you think that will that run ok with the Logitech Process Manager? > Or is that asking for trouble again? Definitely asking for trouble. In my experience, it'll start breaking cygwin p

RE: postinstall hang

2008-04-02 Thread Dave Korn
Popper, Samuel (US SSA) wrote on 01 April 2008 21:13: > The output of cygcheck and sc.exe are both attached to this message. > Nothing there looked out of the ordinary to me, but I'm sure that you > have a better idea of what to look for. Only a couple of things that could conceivably be releva

Re: postinstall hang

2008-04-01 Thread David Johnstone
Thanks, here are the outputs. Actually I do have a logitech webcam, but couldn't find any running processes I could associate with it. In the Registry run section is an entry for C:\Programme\Logitech\Video\ManifestEngine.exe boot but I can't see that in the task manager, or anything started by it

RE: postinstall hang

2008-04-01 Thread Dave Korn
David Johnstone wrote on 01 April 2008 20:03: > Thanks, here are the outputs. > Actually I do have a logitech webcam, but couldn't find any > running processes I could > associate with it. In the Registry run section is an entry for > C:\Programme\Logitech\Video\ManifestEngine.exe boot > but I can

RE: postinstall hang

2008-04-01 Thread Dave Korn
Popper, Samuel (US SSA) wrote on 01 April 2008 16:53: > Here's my list of candidate BLODA .dll's from procexp: > They all appear to be from cygwin or right from Windows Yes, I think you're right about that, so I doubt any of them is related. > (I can send the desciption/version number inform

RE: postinstall hang

2008-04-01 Thread Dave Korn
David Johnstone wrote on 01 April 2008 19:14: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > According to Popper, Samuel (US SSA) on 3/31/2008 2:48 PM: > > > > I've tried to install cygwin now about 7 or 8 times but the > > > > postinstall always hangs somewhere, in different scrip

Re: postinstall hang

2008-04-01 Thread David Johnstone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Popper, Samuel (US SSA) on 3/31/2008 2:48 PM: |> I've tried to install cygwin now about 7 or 8 times but the | postinstall |> always hangs somewhere, in different scripts at different places. Sounds like the classic symptoms of http://cy

RE: postinstall hang

2008-04-01 Thread Popper, Samuel (US SSA)
> > Is there anything else that could contribute to BLODA? > > Yes, absolutely anything that hooks or injects into processes. Try > using > procexp to get a list of DLLs from the stuck bash processes, and let us > know > what's there. Here's my list of candidate BLODA .dll's from procexp: AcLu

RE: postinstall hang

2008-04-01 Thread Dave Korn
Popper, Samuel (US SSA) wrote on 01 April 2008 14:47: > > > $ NUM=1; while true ; do echo `echo $NUM` ; NUM=$(( $NUM + 1 )); done > > > > > > Hangs pretty quickly, > > > > because it forks a huge number of processes, and each fork is likely to > > be tripped up by a BLODA > > As I understand it

RE: postinstall hang

2008-04-01 Thread Popper, Samuel (US SSA)
> | $ NUM=1; while true ; do echo $NUM; NUM=$(( $NUM + 1 )); done > | > | will run indefinitely, > > because it doesn't fork Correct; that's what I was trying to demonstrate. > | $ NUM=1; while true ; do echo `echo $NUM` ; NUM=$(( $NUM + 1 )); done > | > | Hangs pretty quickly, > > because it f

Re: postinstall hang

2008-03-31 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Popper, Samuel (US SSA) on 3/31/2008 2:48 PM: |> I've tried to install cygwin now about 7 or 8 times but the | postinstall |> always hangs somewhere, in different scripts at different places. Sounds like the classic symptoms of http://cy

RE: postinstall hang

2008-03-31 Thread Popper, Samuel (US SSA)
> I've tried to install cygwin now about 7 or 8 times but the postinstall > always hangs somewhere, in different scripts at different places. I am still having this problem (as evidenced by previous messages). I've come up with a bash script "test case" that demonstrates the problem: $ NUM=1; whi