Re: "setup-x86 --quiet-mode" problems

[Brian Inglis]

On 2018-04-22 07:51, Andrey Repin wrote:
>> On Thu 2018-04-19 (17:28), Brian Inglis wrote:
>>> cygstart .../setup-x86 --quiet-mode ... && sleep 1 && kill -9 $$ $PPID
>> Ahh... cygstart does the trick! :-)
>> I was not aware of this helper program. Good to know!
> In this specific case, it is better to use
> cmd /C START "" "$( cygpath -ma ".\\setup-${ARCH}.exe" )" -O -s 
> "${MIRROR%%/}/" $KEYS "$@" &
> So that you detach completely from the cygwin process tree.

That's exactly what cygstart does:

$ cygstart .../setup
$ ps -W | egrep 'COMMAND|setup'
 PID  PPID  PGID  WINPID  TTY  UIDSTIME COMMAND
7080 0 07080  ?  0 10:10:48 C:\...\setup-x86_64.exe

as I use it in a script which kills Cygwin processes after launching setup.

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Re: "setup-x86 --quiet-mode" problems

[Andrey Repin]

Greetings, Ulli Horlacher!

> On Thu 2018-04-19 (17:28), Brian Inglis wrote:

>> cygstart .../setup-x86 --quiet-mode ... && sleep 1 && kill -9 $$ $PPID

> Ahh... cygstart does the trick! :-)
> I was not aware of this helper program. Good to know!

In this specific case, it is better to use

cmd /C START "" "$( cygpath -ma ".\\setup-${ARCH}.exe" )" -O -s "${MIRROR%%/}/" 
$KEYS "$@" &

So that you detach completely from the cygwin process tree.


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Andrey Repin
Sunday, April 22, 2018 16:43:58

Sorry for my terrible english...


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Re: "setup-x86 --quiet-mode" problems

[Ulli Horlacher]

On Thu 2018-04-19 (17:28), Brian Inglis wrote:

> cygstart .../setup-x86 --quiet-mode ... && sleep 1 && kill -9 $$ $PPID

Ahh... cygstart does the trick! :-)
I was not aware of this helper program. Good to know!

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Re: "setup-x86 --quiet-mode" problems

[Brian Inglis]

On 2018-04-19 10:31, Ulli Horlacher wrote:
> I have an update script which calls "setup-x86 --quiet-mode".
> So far, this works great, but now it tries to install a new mintty.exe,
> but one mintty still running (where I started setup-x86), so setup-x86
> kills this process... and setup-x86.exe is killed, too, which resulted in
> a damaged cygwin installation :-(
> I was able to fix it by running setup-x86.exe via Windows Explorer (pu!).
> How can I avoid this kind of problem in the future?
> I tried it with:
> setup-x86 --quiet-mode &
> sleep 1
> kill -9 $PPID
> But setup-x86 was killed again, too.

cygstart .../setup-x86 --quiet-mode ... && sleep 1 && kill -9 $$ $PPID

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Re: "setup-x86 --quiet-mode" problems

[Vince Rice]

> On Apr 19, 2018, at 11:31 AM, Ulli Horlacher wrote:
> 
> I have an update script which calls "setup-x86 --quiet-mode".
> So far, this works great, but now it tries to install a new mintty.exe,
> but one mintty still running (where I started setup-x86), so setup-x86
> kills this process... and setup-x86.exe is killed, too, which resulted in
> a damaged cygwin installation :-(
> 
> I was able to fix it by running setup-x86.exe via Windows Explorer (pu!).
> 
> How can I avoid this kind of problem in the future?
> 
> I tried it with:
> 
> setup-x86 --quiet-mode &
> sleep 1
> kill -9 $PPID
> 
> But setup-x86 was killed again, too.

The way you fixed it already — don't run setup under mintty (or dash or …).
Setup is not a cygwin program (it's not linked to cygwin1.dll).
It's safest to have all of your cygwin processes stopped when you run setup,
anyway, to prevent problems just like this.
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"setup-x86 --quiet-mode" problems

[Ulli Horlacher]

I have an update script which calls "setup-x86 --quiet-mode".
So far, this works great, but now it tries to install a new mintty.exe,
but one mintty still running (where I started setup-x86), so setup-x86
kills this process... and setup-x86.exe is killed, too, which resulted in
a damaged cygwin installation :-(

I was able to fix it by running setup-x86.exe via Windows Explorer (pu!).

How can I avoid this kind of problem in the future?

I tried it with:

setup-x86 --quiet-mode &
sleep 1
kill -9 $PPID

But setup-x86 was killed again, too.


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