Greetz. I know that this problem has been discussed several times previously, but I didn't find any clear answers in the documentation or the list archives, so here goes again. The setup.exe process hangs during postinstall on certain scripts (most importantly for me, on post-texmf.sh). I am installing Cygwin afresh on a new P4 XP laptop, and I don't think it is because of some other application. I tried scrubbing all files and trying afresh, and the problem recurs each time.
Previous suggestions re this problem (esp. the one about launching setup.exe from a Windows shell) did not work. I am able to complete a partially-functional install by using Windows Task Manager to kill an sh.exe process (size 2064 KB or thereabouts) repeatedly whenever setup hangs, but this does not completely solve the problem. I need LaTeX to be working on Cygwin, for example, but the post-texmf.sh hangs, and though `which latex' and `latex --version' report a correct install when I kill an offending sh.exe using Task Manager, when I try to run LaTeX on a file, it hangs with `kpathsea: Running mktexfmt latex.fmt'. When this happens on Linux one needs to `texhash', but here `texhash' hangs too. Running post-texmf.sh from the Bash shell also causes that script to hang. The setup.log shows some strange entries for the offending scripts: 2004/08/03 00:44:23 running: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c /etc/postinstall/base-files-mketc.sh 2004/08/03 00:44:44 error: Unable to remove temporary file '/var/log/setup.log.postinstallXa02876' 2004/08/03 00:44:44 running: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c /etc/postinstall/base-files-profile.sh 2004/08/03 00:45:29 error: Unable to remove temporary file '/var/log/setup.log.postinstallXa02876' 2004/08/03 00:45:29 running: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c /etc/postinstall/cron.sh 2004/08/03 00:45:44 error: Unable to remove temporary file '/var/log/setup.log.postinstallXa02876' 2004/08/03 00:45:44 error: Unable to remove temporary file '/var/log/setup.log.postinstallXa02876' 2004/08/03 00:45:44 running: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c /etc/postinstall/gcc-mingw-ada.sh 2004/08/03 00:46:29 error: Unable to remove temporary file '/var/log/setup.log.postinstallXa02876' 2004/08/03 00:46:29 error: Unable to remove temporary file '/var/log/setup.log.postinstallXa02876' 2004/08/03 00:46:29 running: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c /etc/postinstall/gcc-mingw-core.sh 2004/08/03 00:47:09 error: Unable to remove temporary file '/var/log/setup.log.postinstallXa02876' 2004/08/03 00:47:09 error: Unable to remove temporary file '/var/log/setup.log.postinstallXa02876' 2004/08/03 00:47:09 running: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c /etc/postinstall/gcc-mingw-g++.sh 2004/08/03 00:47:38 error: Unable to remove temporary file '/var/log/setup.log.postinstallXa02876' 2004/08/03 00:47:38 error: Unable to remove temporary file '/var/log/setup.log.postinstallXa02876' 2004/08/03 00:47:38 running: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c /etc/postinstall/gcc-mingw-g77.sh 2004/08/03 00:48:15 error: Unable to remove temporary file '/var/log/setup.log.postinstallXa02876' 2004/08/03 00:48:15 error: Unable to remove temporary file '/var/log/setup.log.postinstallXa02876' 2004/08/03 00:48:15 running: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c /etc/postinstall/gcc-mingw-gpc.sh 2004/08/03 00:48:37 error: Unable to remove temporary file '/var/log/setup.log.postinstallXa02876' 2004/08/03 00:48:37 error: Unable to remove temporary file '/var/log/setup.log.postinstallXa02876' 2004/08/03 00:48:37 running: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c /etc/postinstall/gcc-mingw-java.sh 2004/08/03 00:49:33 error: Unable to remove temporary file '/var/log/setup.log.postinstallXa02876' 2004/08/03 00:49:33 error: Unable to remove temporary file '/var/log/setup.log.postinstallXa02876' 2004/08/03 00:49:33 running: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c /etc/postinstall/gcc-mingw-objc.sh 2004/08/03 00:50:05 error: Unable to remove temporary file '/var/log/setup.log.postinstallXa02876' 2004/08/03 00:50:05 running: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c /etc/postinstall/man.sh 2004/08/03 00:50:17 error: Unable to remove temporary file '/var/log/setup.log.postinstallXa02876' 2004/08/03 00:50:17 running: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c /etc/postinstall/passwd-grp.sh 2004/08/03 00:50:25 error: Unable to remove temporary file '/var/log/setup.log.postinstallXa02876' 2004/08/03 00:50:25 running: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c /etc/postinstall/post-texmf.sh 2004/08/03 00:52:39 error: Unable to remove temporary file '/var/log/setup.log.postinstallXa02876' 2004/08/03 00:52:39 running: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c /etc/postinstall/tcsh.sh 2004/08/03 00:52:46 error: Unable to remove temporary file '/var/log/setup.log.postinstallXa02876' 2004/08/03 00:52:46 running: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c /etc/postinstall/terminfo.sh 2004/08/03 00:52:49 error: Unable to remove temporary file '/var/log/setup.log.postinstallXa02876' 2004/08/03 00:52:49 running: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c /etc/postinstall/update-info-dir.sh 2004/08/03 00:54:36 error: Unable to remove temporary file '/var/log/setup.log.postinstallXa02876' 2004/08/03 00:54:36 running: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c /etc/postinstall/wget.sh 2004/08/03 00:54:39 error: Unable to remove temporary file '/var/log/setup.log.postinstallXa02876' 2004/08/03 00:54:46 mbox note: Nothing needed to be installed 2004/08/03 00:54:48 Ending cygwin install The file '/var/log/setup.log.postinstallXa02876' has just the one line: cp: cannot stat `/usr/doc/wget-1.9.1/sample.wgetrc': No such file or directory My cygcheck.out is attached. Sorry for the long-winded problem reportany clarifications. , but I would appreciate Regards, Shrisha Rao
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