problems with installing cygwin on windows 7
Could anyone help me with this problem? I posted this couple of days ago, but so far there is no response. When installing cygwin using default option - everything goes well. On the other hand when trying to install: everything (install option) or some parts of the cygwin package the setup.exe runs for ever and could not complete successfully within 3-5 hours. So I stopped it manually. I tried to do that using various download sites and it does not help. I am trying to install cygwin as a first package on freshly installed windows 7. Is anyone experiencing similar problems? What the remedy could be? Thanks in advance Piotr -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: problems with installing cygwin on windows 7
Hi Piotr ! 2013/5/3 Piotr Cieplak piotr_ciep...@yahoo.com: Could anyone help me with this problem? I posted this couple of days ago, but so far there is no response. When installing cygwin using default option - everything goes well. On the other hand when trying to install: everything (install option) or some parts of the cygwin package the setup.exe runs for ever and could not complete successfully within 3-5 hours. So I stopped it manually. I tried to do that using various download sites and it does not help. I am trying to install cygwin as a first package on freshly installed windows 7. Is anyone experiencing similar problems? What the remedy could be? Thanks in advance I was able to install Cygwin into the following PCs on 2013-03-2x . https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/86335040/openSUSE/DxDiag13.txt I have remembered that setup.exe required install of Bonjour. Then, I installed Safari previously. Although it is right or cannot judge to me, since it may become helpful, I tell. -- 1xx itsa...@gmail.com https://twitter.com/ItSANgo http://d.hatena.ne.jp/Itisango/ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: problems with installing cygwin on windows 7
Hi Piotr, On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 8:25 AM, Piotr Cieplak wrote: Could anyone help me with this problem? I posted this couple of days ago, but so far there is no response. When installing cygwin using default option - everything goes well. On the other hand when trying to install: everything (install option) or some parts of the cygwin package the setup.exe runs for ever and could not complete successfully within 3-5 hours. (snip) Is anyone experiencing similar problems? What the remedy could be? Don't do it :) For setup.exe to to install everything it has to download everything, checksum everything, unpack everything, install everything, rebase everything. This takes time, regardless of which mirror you use. Why do you want to install everything? I doubt there is a single person on Earth who has used every single Cygwin program. Csaba -- GCS a+ e++ d- C++ ULS$ L+$ !E- W++ P+++$ w++$ tv+ b++ DI D++ 5++ The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers. Life is complex, with real and imaginary parts. Ok, it boots. Which means it must be bug-free and perfect. -- Linus Torvalds People disagree with me. I just ignore them. -- Linus Torvalds -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: problems with installing cygwin on windows 7
On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 09:44:19AM +0200, Csaba Raduly wrote: Hi Piotr, On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 8:25 AM, Piotr Cieplak wrote: Could anyone help me with this problem? I posted this couple of days ago, but so far there is no response. When installing cygwin using default option - everything goes well. On the other hand when trying to install: everything (install option) or some parts of the cygwin package the setup.exe runs for ever and could not complete successfully within 3-5 hours. (snip) Is anyone experiencing similar problems? What the remedy could be? Don't do it :) For setup.exe to to install everything it has to download everything, checksum everything, unpack everything, install everything, rebase everything. This takes time, regardless of which mirror you use. Why do you want to install everything? I doubt there is a single person on Earth who has used every single Cygwin program. But, if they did, I'd give them a gold star for their efforts. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: problems with installing cygwin on windows 7
On 03/05/2013 11:48 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 09:44:19AM +0200, Csaba Raduly wrote: Hi Piotr, On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 8:25 AM, Piotr Cieplak wrote: Could anyone help me with this problem? I posted this couple of days ago, but so far there is no response. When installing cygwin using default option - everything goes well. On the other hand when trying to install: everything (install option) or some parts of the cygwin package the setup.exe runs for ever and could not complete successfully within 3-5 hours. (snip) Is anyone experiencing similar problems? What the remedy could be? Don't do it :) For setup.exe to to install everything it has to download everything, checksum everything, unpack everything, install everything, rebase everything. This takes time, regardless of which mirror you use. Why do you want to install everything? I doubt there is a single person on Earth who has used every single Cygwin program. But, if they did, I'd give them a gold star for their efforts. Define use ... for f in /usr/bin/*.exe; do $f --help; done :) Ryan -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: problems with installing cygwin on windows 7
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 11:25 PM, Piotr Cieplak piotr_ciep...@yahoo.com wrote: Could anyone help me with this problem? I posted this couple of days ago, but so far there is no response. When installing cygwin using default option - everything goes well. On the other hand when trying to install: everything (install option) or some parts of the cygwin package the setup.exe runs for ever and could not complete successfully within 3-5 hours. So I stopped it manually. I tried to do that using various download sites and it does not help. I am trying to install cygwin as a first package on freshly installed windows 7. Is anyone experiencing similar problems? What the remedy could be? Thanks in advance Piotr Hi Piotr, I have installed reinstalled Cygwin recently (and over the past 12 years). If you got the default version of Cygwin to install correctly, there is no problem with your computer, etc. A full install might take 12 hours, so be patient. Also, I have found that the kernel.org mirror is much faster than the anl.gov mirror I had previously used. A faster option might to use 2-3 steps: 1. Do a full download and save but don't install. 2. Do a basic (default) install from the saved files. This helps to verify that the download worked without any glitches (the connection from the mirror through the internet, your ISP, the Setup.exe program and your computer aren't perfect...sometimes things get garbled). 3. Do a few quick tests to see that the basic install worked (open a shell window and run ls -l, etc). Assuming that works, re-run Setup.exe and select a few more individual packages for a full install (maybe compilers, editors, etc). Even with just a few things, the postinstall scripts can still take a couple of hours to finish things off, so be prepared and don't kill them before they're finished. Repeat as necessary until everything you actually use is installed. If something goes wrong, you still have the saved download and don't need to repeat step #1. Just delete the c:/cygwin dir and start over at step 2. Enjoy! And thank you once again to the entire Cygwin team for helping those of us who are still stuck interacting with Windoze. ;) Alan Thompson P.S. I have had to run rebaseall each time I do an install or upgrade over the past year.not sure why as this never used to be a problem. Please see: http://cygwin.wikia.com/wiki/Rebaseall It is only a 5 minute process once you have the correct instructions. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: problems with installing cygwin on windows 7
On 03/05/2013 2:28 PM, Alan Thompson wrote: P.S. I have had to run rebaseall each time I do an install or upgrade over the past year.not sure why as this never used to be a problem. That's very strange, because setup.exe started running rebaseall automatically just over a year ago [1]. You shouldn't need to run rebaseall these days unless you compile your own .dlls and want them to play nice with the rest of the system. Please see: http://cygwin.wikia.com/wiki/Rebaseall It is only a 5 minute process once you have the correct instructions. Where correct means accurate and up to date?*** Please don't use those instructions, even if they are a the very top of the Google listing for cygwin setup rebaseall. First, rebaseall runs automatically as part of setup for over a year now [1]. Second, rebooting into safe mode to stop cygwin services borders on downright silly. Third, you don't need to be Administrator to run rebase unless you messed with file permissions in really weird ways. Fourth, somebody *is* working on a 64-bit port of cygwin; it mostly works at this point, and somebody posted about using it just today in fact [2]. [1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2012-03/msg00060.html [2] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-05/msg00055.html *** but then again, the official documentation at /usr/share/doc/rebase/README still says: Note that rebaseall is only a stop-gap measure. Eventually the rebase functionality will be added to Cygwin's setup.exe, so that rebasing will happen automatically. ... but at least it doesn't tell you to reboot into safe mode as part of using Cygwin. Ryan -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: problems with installing cygwin on windows 7
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Ryan Johnson ryan.john...@cs.utoronto.ca wrote: On 03/05/2013 2:28 PM, Alan Thompson wrote: P.S. I have had to run rebaseall each time I do an install or upgrade over the past year.not sure why as this never used to be a problem. That's very strange, because setup.exe started running rebaseall automatically just over a year ago [1]. You shouldn't need to run rebaseall these days unless you compile your own .dlls and want them to play nice with the rest of the system. snip ... but at least it doesn't tell you to reboot into safe mode as part of using Cygwin. I did not boot into safe mode - just a plain reboot as a safety precaution. I then just opened up a regular Windoze cmd.exe window and typed the commands using the dash shell. I cannot explain why I have suddenly needed to run rebaseall to keep Cygwin working, especially since I had thougt that setup.exe handled everything as you state. Last month the corp. IT dept did a windows update and Cygwin quite working. I did a Cygwin reinstall but got the error message (can't remember specifically now) indicating a rebaseall was needed. Rediscovered the rebaseall documentation via google and printed it out to keep at my desk. Fortunately, the simple rebaseall command got the Cygwin installation back up and working smoothly in just a few minutes. Alan Thompson On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Ryan Johnson ryan.john...@cs.utoronto.ca wrote: On 03/05/2013 2:28 PM, Alan Thompson wrote: P.S. I have had to run rebaseall each time I do an install or upgrade over the past year.not sure why as this never used to be a problem. That's very strange, because setup.exe started running rebaseall automatically just over a year ago [1]. You shouldn't need to run rebaseall these days unless you compile your own .dlls and want them to play nice with the rest of the system. Please see: http://cygwin.wikia.com/wiki/Rebaseall It is only a 5 minute process once you have the correct instructions. Where correct means accurate and up to date?*** Please don't use those instructions, even if they are a the very top of the Google listing for cygwin setup rebaseall. First, rebaseall runs automatically as part of setup for over a year now [1]. Second, rebooting into safe mode to stop cygwin services borders on downright silly. Third, you don't need to be Administrator to run rebase unless you messed with file permissions in really weird ways. Fourth, somebody *is* working on a 64-bit port of cygwin; it mostly works at this point, and somebody posted about using it just today in fact [2]. [1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2012-03/msg00060.html [2] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-05/msg00055.html *** but then again, the official documentation at /usr/share/doc/rebase/README still says: Note that rebaseall is only a stop-gap measure. Eventually the rebase functionality will be added to Cygwin's setup.exe, so that rebasing will happen automatically. ... but at least it doesn't tell you to reboot into safe mode as part of using Cygwin. Ryan -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
