Over the years I've read many accounts of setup stalling / hanging /
taking forever / ... at the /etc/postinstall stage. This has never,
ever, happened to me, and I've always assumed the underlying cause to be
some minor local problem with the poster's platform or implementation.
Until today. I've tried twice to install Cygwin to a fresh formatted
NTFS stick and on both occasions the installation has become stuck at
/etc/postinstall/coreutils.sh
It's not that everything has halted. The stick's little green activity
light is flashing away, and has never stopped; so something is going on
- but after 2 hours I'm assuming it's some kind of faulty endless loop
rather than the proper progression to completion.
Could press Cancel (as I did at the first attempt) but while _something_
is happening I'm inclined to hang around a bit longer, and see.
Any clues? Anything odd/ miscast about coreutils.sh which [for the
moment] I'm not in a position to scrutinise myself?
Thank you,
Fergus
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