Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours (resending due to cygwin bounce)

2014-10-20 Thread Don MacDougall
If I changed it away from default was accidental. I did look through the list of packages to be installed and it looked like quite a list and all binary packages were checked but not the source packages. But, since the first time I have looked when I restarted the installation and it said

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours (resending due to cygwin bounce)

2014-10-20 Thread Don MacDougall
Oops, what I meant to say was that it says default not install when I restart the installation. If I had it set to install the first time rather than default, presumably it would still say that on restarting, I would imagine, though this is my first time in at least 10 years to try to install

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours (resending due to cygwin bounce)

2014-07-20 Thread leftwing
I'm experiencing this problem right now, about 2 years after earlier discussion. I didn't choose this package - it was installed as a dependency for curl development. The post install processes have been running for hours and hours ... -- View this message in context:

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours (resending due to cygwin bounce)

2014-07-20 Thread Ken Brown
On 7/20/2014 10:00 AM, leftwing wrote: I'm experiencing this problem right now, about 2 years after earlier discussion. I didn't choose this package - it was installed as a dependency for curl development. The post install processes have been running for hours and hours ... Please make a

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours (resending due to cygwin bounce)

2013-02-06 Thread jeremycraven
I did not change anything in the Publishing section, so all were at default, unless one of my other choices chnaged them due to dependencies (see end of this post as well). Elsewhere as far as I remember I added all of X11, python, and editors, rxvt , tcsh shell, and Imagemagick. Of those the

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours (resending due to cygwin bounce)

2013-02-06 Thread Ken Brown
On 2/6/2013 4:52 AM, jeremycraven wrote: I did not change anything in the Publishing section, so all were at default, unless one of my other choices chnaged them due to dependencies Nothing from TeX Live is installed by default. So everything you installed came from dependencies. (see

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours (resending due to cygwin bounce)

2013-02-05 Thread jeremycraven
I am just reinstalling cygwin on a fresh install of XP on a rather old laptop with Avast as virus software. It is absolutely crawling at the texlive postinstallation stage - stuck showing 24-25% for at least half an hour now. I was about to give up but googled cygwin install hangs

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours (resending due to cygwin bounce)

2013-02-05 Thread marco atzeri
On 2/5/2013 4:48 PM, jeremycraven wrote: I am just reinstalling cygwin on a fresh install of XP on a rather old laptop with Avast as virus software. It is absolutely crawling at the texlive postinstallation stage - stuck showing 24-25% for at least half an hour now. I was about to give up but

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours (resending due to cygwin bounce)

2013-02-05 Thread Ken Brown
On 2/5/2013 10:48 AM, jeremycraven wrote: I am just reinstalling cygwin on a fresh install of XP on a rather old laptop with Avast as virus software. It is absolutely crawling at the texlive postinstallation stage - stuck showing 24-25% for at least half an hour now. I was about to give up but

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours (resending due to cygwin bounce)

2013-01-28 Thread toddcs
I, too, am now experiencing this texlive problem during Cygwin update, in which I am trying to install Asymptote for the first time. I am on a late-model laptop with up-to-date anti-virus software. I do not experience such extreme bottlenecks at all in other contexts. -- View this message in

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours (resending due to cygwin bounce)

2013-01-28 Thread Ken Brown
On 1/28/2013 11:41 AM, toddcs wrote: I, too, am now experiencing this texlive problem during Cygwin update, in which I am trying to install Asymptote for the first time. I am on a late-model laptop with up-to-date anti-virus software. I do not experience such extreme bottlenecks at all in other

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours (resending due to cygwin bounce)

2012-08-24 Thread Ken Brown
On 8/23/2012 7:35 AM, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/23/2012 6:03 AM, martin.fitzpatr...@sita.aero wrote: Hi, I have just completed a cygwin install, which seemed to take an extraordinary length of time, so I started googling and found the article Setup 1.7.11 texlive postinstall takes 6+ hours. Ken

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours (resending due to cygwin bounce)

2012-08-24 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown writes: I don't see anything in those scripts that would explain this. I just ran them manually on my system, and the times (in minutes) were 14, 3, 2.5, 2.5, and 7. So I can't think of any explanation except that something on your system (anti-virus or other BLODA?) was

Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours (resending due to cygwin bounce)

2012-08-23 Thread Martin . Fitzpatrick
Hi, I have just completed a cygwin install, which seemed to take an extraordinary length of time, so I started googling and found the article Setup 1.7.11 texlive postinstall takes 6+ hours. Ken Brown's response to that post was hopeful, but may have underestimated the scope of the problem,

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours (resending due to cygwin bounce)

2012-08-23 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 6:03 AM, Martin.Fitzpatrick wrote: Hi, I have just completed a cygwin install, which seemed to take an extraordinary length of time, so I started googling and found the article If you do the same with the anti-virus disabled does it change the length of time? --

RE: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours (resending due to cygwin bounce)

2012-08-23 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
Martin.Fitzpatrick@... wrote: This document is strictly confidential and intended only for use by the addressee unless otherwise stated. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and delete it from your system. Martin, per

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours (resending due to cygwin bounce)

2012-08-23 Thread Ken Brown
On 8/23/2012 6:03 AM, martin.fitzpatr...@sita.aero wrote: Hi, I have just completed a cygwin install, which seemed to take an extraordinary length of time, so I started googling and found the article Setup 1.7.11 texlive postinstall takes 6+ hours. Ken Brown's response to that post was hopeful,