RE: Problem with cygwin setup
Original Message From: jds Sent: 02 May 2005 21:47 Thanks for your help Reid, but... are you sure it's 'stuck' --- this might take a while: Well, I let it sit for 20 minutes and nothing happened... Well, unless you know how long it's supposed to take, how do you know if that's long enough to conclude it's got stuck or not? A more effective way of checking would be to bring up the windows task manager and see if it's still actively using cpu time and doing stuff. You will almost certainly find that it was, indeed, just busy and not finished yet. Let it run to completion, or at any rate don't conclude it's hung until you see it sitting there for a while at 0% cpu usage... cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
RE: Problem with cygwin setup
jds wrote: Sorry, my question is very basic, but I have to ask it. Short Version: Could someone tell me the target for the cygwin shortcut that should get installed? Long Version: Basically, my problem is that when I install cygwin it gets stuck on this screen: are you sure it's 'stuck' --- this might take a while: #!/bin/sh rm -f /usr/info/dir for d in /usr/info /usr/share/info; do for f in $d/*; do case $f in *\**) ;; dir|dir.info*) ;; *-[0123456789]*) ;; *) install-info --quiet $f /usr/share/info/dir || install-info --quiet --entry=* $$f ($f): $$f $$f /usr/share/info/dir ;; esac done done /dev/null 21 Try running it by hand letting it finish, then run setup again w/o selecting any more packages. reid -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
RE: Problem with cygwin setup
Thanks for your help Reid, but... are you sure it's 'stuck' --- this might take a while: Well, I let it sit for 20 minutes and nothing happened... Try running it by hand letting it finish, then run setup again w/o selecting any more packages. Maybe I don't understand you, or your don't understand me, or I'm just clueless, but what I really want to know is how to run cygwin now that it's installed, given that I don't have an icon on my desktop. I dunno, isn't the icon just a shortcut to some .exe, or is it something else? Thanks for your help, but I really didn't know what to do with that big thing that you copied for me. Anyways, here's my log file if it helps (minus a whole bunch of stuff in the middle): 2005/05/02 13:21:46 Starting cygwin install, version 2.457.2.2 2005/05/02 13:21:46 Failed to set CYGWIN=nontsec 2005/05/02 13:21:46 Current Directory: C:\Jordan Work\cygwin 2005/05/02 13:21:46 Changing gid to Users 2005/05/02 13:21:46 Found McAfee anti virus program 2005/05/02 13:21:51 Disabled Anti Virus software 2005/05/02 13:21:53 source: network install 2005/05/02 13:21:56 root: C:\cygwin binary system 2005/05/02 13:21:58 Selected local directory: C:\Jordan Work\cygwin 2005/05/02 13:21:59 net: Direct 2005/05/02 13:22:01 site: ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sources.redhat.com/ftp/cygwin 2005/05/02 13:22:12 site: ftp://mirror.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/mirror/cygwin.com 2005/05/02 13:22:20 Visited: 547 nodes out of 552. 2005/05/02 13:22:20 Dependency ordered install: [ ... deleted] 2005/05/02 13:22:22 running: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c /etc/postinstall/post-texmf.sh 2005/05/02 13:35:42 Enabled Anti Virus software 2005/05/02 13:35:43 mbox note: Nothing needed to be installed 2005/05/02 13:35:44 Ending cygwin install -Original Message- Date: Mon May 02 13:17:03 PDT 2005 From: Reid Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Problem with cygwin setup To: , cygwin@cygwin.com jds wrote: Sorry, my question is very basic, but I have to ask it. Short Version: Could someone tell me the target for the cygwin shortcut that should get installed? Long Version: Basically, my problem is that when I install cygwin it gets stuck on this screen: are you sure it's 'stuck' --- this might take a while: #!/bin/sh rm -f /usr/info/dir for d in /usr/info /usr/share/info; do for f in $d/*; do case $f in *\**) ;; dir|dir.info*) ;; *-[0123456789]*) ;; *) install-info --quiet $f /usr/share/info/dir || install-info --quiet --entry=* $$f ($f): $$f $$f /usr/share/info/dir ;; esac done done /dev/null 21 Try running it by hand letting it finish, then run setup again w/o selecting any more packages. reid -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Problem with cygwin setup
jds wrote: Maybe I don't understand you, or your don't understand me, or I'm just clueless, but what I really want to know is how to run cygwin now that it's installed, given that I don't have an icon on my desktop. I dunno, isn't the icon just a shortcut to some .exe, or is it something else? Thanks for your help, but I really didn't know what to do with that big thing that you copied for me. There should be a cygwin.bat in the directory you choose to install to; just run that. Alternatively, open a command prompt: cd \cygwin\bin # or whatever your location is bash -li To run any postinstall scripts that did not complete, do the following from the bash prompt: cd /etc/postinstall for F in *.sh; do . $F mv $F $F.done; done Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Problem with cygwin setup
Ok, I guess something else must've gone wrong because I don't have a cygwin.bat file. Thanks for your help, I'll try completely deleting everything and then re-installing it. -Original Message- Date: Mon May 02 13:57:35 PDT 2005 From: Brian Dessent [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Problem with cygwin setup To: cygwin@cygwin.com jds wrote: Maybe I don't understand you, or your don't understand me, or I'm just clueless, but what I really want to know is how to run cygwin now that it's installed, given that I don't have an icon on my desktop. I dunno, isn't the icon just a shortcut to some .exe, or is it something else? Thanks for your help, but I really didn't know what to do with that big thing that you copied for me. There should be a cygwin.bat in the directory you choose to install to; just run that. Alternatively, open a command prompt: cd \cygwin\bin # or whatever your location is bash -li To run any postinstall scripts that did not complete, do the following from the bash prompt: cd /etc/postinstall for F in *.sh; do . $F mv $F $F.done; done Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Problem with cygwin setup
Jds wrote: Short Version: Could someone tell me the target for the cygwin shortcut that should get installed? From what I recall it was dependent on your OS - for old Win9x OS's it was placed in Desktop and for Win2k or WinNT and the like it was placed in Documents and setting and either All Users or your User Id based on how you answered the option for all users or just me during setup. Thought - which option did you select and are you the administrator for this system - also what OS are you on and one last thought: Looking at your log: 2005/05/02 13:22:22 running: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c /etc/postinstall/post-texmf.sh 2005/05/02 13:35:42 Enabled Anti Virus software 2005/05/02 13:35:43 mbox note: Nothing needed to be installed 2005/05/02 13:35:44 Ending cygwin install Notice the Nothing needed to be installed note - did you actually see it download and install anything - did you in fact select something to be installed - from the Chooser screen when it shows you all the categories you must select at least the Base Category. bk -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
