Installation problem with Windows Server 2008
Hello, I am experiencing problem with Cygwin installation on the latest Windows Server 2008 Enterprise version RC1. I am using the latest setup.exe from Cygwin home page (as of yesterday). The setup runs fine during the package selection and download phase. The installation hangs when it tries to run the first of the postinstall shell scripts. By hang, I mean the process takes up 100% CPU for an indefinite period of time. Even after I cancel the installation process, the bash process keeps running. I had to kill the process using Task Manager. I installed all the default selected packages plus Python 2.5. When I manually start the bash.exe program by double-clicking on c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe, I can use some of the commands okay (like echo, ls, find, cat, less, etc). But again, if I invoke Python interactive interpreter, it hangs. Interestingly, python --version works fine. But python any-python-script hangs. Is Cygwin supposed to work on Server 2008 yet? If so, are there any known issues? I noticed that a similar problem was reported in August on this list but did not find a solution. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, -- Nimish -- 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: Installation problem with Windows Server 2008
On Dec 19, 2007 8:39 AM, Corinna Vinschen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 19 08:18, Nimish Pachapurkar wrote: Hello, I am experiencing problem with Cygwin installation on the latest Windows Server 2008 Enterprise version RC1. I am using the latest setup.exe from Cygwin home page (as of yesterday). The setup runs fine during the package selection and download phase. The installation hangs when it tries to run the first of the postinstall shell scripts. Windows 2008 Server is not yet supported. Thanks for the clarification. Is there a plan for supporting it in near future? I was under the impression that server 2008 is based on Vista and Cygwin already works on Vista. Obviously, they are sufficiently different. -- Nimish -- 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: Installation problem with Windows Server 2008
On Dec 19, 2007 9:31 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Dec 19 08:54, Nimish Pachapurkar wrote: On Dec 19, 2007 8:39 AM, Corinna Vinschen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR Sorry about the mail id. I will take care henceforth. I was under the impression that server 2008 is based on Vista and Cygwin already works on Vista. Obviously, they are sufficiently different. I have 2K8 RC1 installed myself and I see these strange hangs, too. There are at least three different types of hangs when running a Cygwin process. None of these hangs occur with non-Cygwin processes, nor do they occur in Vista (not even in the SP1 RC1 version). Strange enough, these hangs occur when calling OS functions and these OS functions are taking the CPU time, apparently. At this point in time I hope this is just one tiny bug in RC1 which will be fixed. I tried a slightly older version of server 2008. I am not sure which one it is - most likely RC0. And Cygwin works like a charm. I have no clue what's the big difference between the two. I tried Version 6.0 (Build 6001: Service Pack 1, v.275) and Cygwin works. (Probably RC0) I tried Version 6.0 (Build 6001: Service Pack 1, v.667) and Cygwin fails. (RC1) I also think it is a bug that will hopefully go away soon. Hope this is useful to others. -- Nimish -- 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: Installation problem with Windows Server 2008
On Dec 19, 2007 11:40 AM, Nimish Pachapurkar wrote: On Dec 19, 2007 9:31 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Dec 19 08:54, Nimish Pachapurkar wrote: On Dec 19, 2007 8:39 AM, Corinna Vinschen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 2K8 RC1 installed myself and I see these strange hangs, too. There are at least three different types of hangs when running a Cygwin process. None of these hangs occur with non-Cygwin processes, nor do they occur in Vista (not even in the SP1 RC1 version). Strange enough, these hangs occur when calling OS functions and these OS functions are taking the CPU time, apparently. At this point in time I hope this is just one tiny bug in RC1 which will be fixed. I tried a slightly older version of server 2008. I am not sure which one it is - most likely RC0. And Cygwin works like a charm. I have no clue what's the big difference between the two. I tried Version 6.0 (Build 6001: Service Pack 1, v.275) and Cygwin works. (Probably RC0) I tried Version 6.0 (Build 6001: Service Pack 1, v.667) and Cygwin fails. (RC1) I also think it is a bug that will hopefully go away soon. Hope this is useful to others. I did some more testing. It seems that the hang problem is specific to python only. I tried the Windows Server 2008 with Hyper V RC1 version which is a later build than the enterprise RC1 version. The python hang persists. However, cygwin installation with or without python goes through without a problem. Python hangs when opening the interactive interpreter shell or when running a python script. Commands like python --help work just fine. How could I debug it further? What tools do cygwin developers usually use to figure out where the problem is? I tried using WinDbg but could not make much sense out of it. -- Nimish -- 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: Installation problem with Windows Server 2008
On Dec 22, 2007 1:59 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Dec 20 15:07, Nimish Pachapurkar wrote: I did some more testing. It seems that the hang problem is specific to python only. It's defintely not Python only on RC1. Windows Server 2008 with Hyper V RC1 version which is a later build than the enterprise RC1 version. The python hang persists. However, cygwin installation with or without python goes through without a problem. [...] I guess I should try the Hyper V version, too at one point. It seems that Microsoft is not likely to fix anymore bugs before RTM of Server 2008. Is it possible to get a workaround for this issue? Or is it completely OS-dependent? Thanks, - Nimish -- 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/