RE: Cygwin Setup 99% (fwd)

2003-10-23 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
> From: Igor Pechtchanski > Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 6:44 AM > On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: > > > Start and run setup until it hangs, then attempt to launch a bash shell: > > [snip] > > Now enter > > [snip] > > $ tail -150 /var/log/setup.log >/setup-log-tail.txt > > [sn

RE: Cygwin Setup 99% (fwd)

2003-10-22 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: > Start and run setup until it hangs, then attempt to launch a bash shell: > [snip] > Now enter > [snip] > $ tail -150 /var/log/setup.log >/setup-log-tail.txt > [snip] > Now, bring forth the windows Task manager and kill setup.exe > [snip] Hannu,

RE: Cygwin Setup 99% (fwd)

2003-10-22 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
> From: Rao, Shrisha > Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 10:25 PM > To: Hannu E K Nevalainen Please, don't send it to me personally - I do read the list. > But you're right; the > postinstall hangs at /etc/postinstall/base-files-mketc.sh, > .../texmf**.sh, and so on. (I've seen postings about

RE: Cygwin Setup 99% (fwd)

2003-10-22 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
> From: Andy Rushton > Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 11:11 AM > I presume that killing this process will still cause something to > misbehave because some part of the install has failed - but I haven't > found what that problem might be yet. The problem _has_ been found, it was bash misbehavi

RE: Cygwin Setup 99% (fwd)

2003-10-22 Thread Rao, Shrisha
On October 22, 2003, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: > Rao: > > It is, and I downloaded and installed it, but the problems continue > > (kill -9 ... and latex still hang). > > Might it be that there was /etc/postinstall/*sh scripts that didn't get > executed - or maybe something went wrong? > > I'

RE: Cygwin Setup 99% (fwd)

2003-10-22 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
> From: Rao, Shrisha > Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 8:12 PM Igor: > > It was shown to be a bash bug (pipes left open on spawn, see > > ). A new > bash-2.05b-16 > > should be on some mirrors already. Rao: > It is, and I downloaded and installe

Re: Cygwin Setup 99% (fwd)

2003-10-22 Thread Andy Rushton
The solution I found to setup hanging was to use the Windows Task Manager to kill the cygpath process (not the setup process) that causes the hang. This enables setup to complete the rest of the install. The reason nothing quite works for you is that setup runs post-install scripts at the end a

RE: Cygwin Setup 99% (fwd)

2003-10-21 Thread Rao, Shrisha
On October 21, 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Rao, Shrisha wrote: > > However, strangely, the "kill -9 ..." sequence you suggested itself > > hangs within this bash shell. (Actually, when the shell comes up it > > does not know the right PATH, but this was easily fixed wit

RE: Cygwin Setup 99% (fwd)

2003-10-21 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Rao, Shrisha wrote: > On Tuesday, October 16, 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > Shrisha, > > > > The Cygwin list does allow posts from non-subscribers, but puts them > > through spam filter checks, and sometimes does not let messages > > through. To find out how to be able

RE: Cygwin Setup 99% (fwd)

2003-10-21 Thread Rao, Shrisha
On Tuesday, October 16, 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > Shrisha, > > The Cygwin list does allow posts from non-subscribers, but puts them > through spam filter checks, and sometimes does not let messages through. > To find out how to be able to post without being flooded by e-mail, see >

Re: Cygwin Setup 99% (fwd)

2003-10-16 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Shrisha, The Cygwin list does allow posts from non-subscribers, but puts them through spam filter checks, and sometimes does not let messages through. To find out how to be able to post without being flooded by e-mail, see . I'm directing the reply to th

Re: Cygwin Setup 99% (fwd)

2003-10-15 Thread Brian Ford
Well, as the doctor says, "If it hurts, don't do that". I think the best suggestion right now is just to run setup from a bash shell. Then all is fine. Well, at least if you haven't already started the other way. On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > I thought this might be useful on

Re: Cygwin Setup 99% (fwd)

2003-10-15 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
I thought this might be useful on the main Cygwin list as well... Igor -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 13:15:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com Subject: Re: Cygwin Setup 99% Open a bash shell and run "kill -9 `ps -s|gr