Re: postinstall hang
For the moment I only really need the cygwin X-Server - do you think that will that run ok with the Logitech Process Manager? Or is that asking for trouble again? Dave, if literally all you need is an X server for Windows, use Xming instead: http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/ I use this with an otherwise full-on Cygwin install and it works great. Hi Gary, nice one, thanks! I hadn't looked around for a while and a while ago the only other alternative X-Servers for windows (like Humming Bird) cost real serious money... I have installed Xming and it also works great, so now I have two alternatives :-) David -- 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: postinstall hang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Popper, Samuel (US SSA) on 3/31/2008 2:48 PM: | I've tried to install cygwin now about 7 or 8 times but the | postinstall | always hangs somewhere, in different scripts at different places. Sounds like the classic symptoms of http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#BLODA Thanks. Sounds plausible. Unfortunately though I have killed all possible candidates I could find and it doesn't seem to make any difference. I found a few references to BLODA as well as the link above, but no actual list as such anywhere. Anyone know of a list? Many thanks, David -- 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: postinstall hang
Thanks, here are the outputs. Actually I do have a logitech webcam, but couldn't find any running processes I could associate with it. In the Registry run section is an entry for C:\Programme\Logitech\Video\ManifestEngine.exe boot but I can't see that in the task manager, or anything started by it. The cygcheck does say though:- Potential app conflicts: Logitech Process Monitor service Detected: HKLM Registry Key, Named process. So perhaps the problem is there? THAT'S IT! Logitech process monitor is infamous for borking cygwin. Stop and Disable it in the service control manager and with just a little luck all those crashes will be lost in time, like tears in the rain. YES!!! Thanks, I didn't realise the Logitech Process Manager entered itself as a service... I just did a complete reinstall with it disabled and even with X and everything all went fine! For the moment I only really need the cygwin X-Server - do you think that will that run ok with the Logitech Process Manager? Or is that asking for trouble again? -- 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/
postinstall hang
OK, I've found one or two posts on this topic but no useful replies. I've tried to install cygwin now about 7 or 8 times but the postinstall always hangs somewhere, in different scripts at different places. I have disabled my antivirus software. I have WinXP on a dual core AMD machine with 2,8GHz and 1G RAM and about 10GByte HDD free. So AFAIK that should all be ok. The default install went through on one or two occassions, but as soon as I try to install more (like X for example) it hangs and the resulting installation is always broken in some way. I haven't found any usable suggestions. I can manually execute some of the stuff in /etc/postinstall and so on, but the resulting system still has problems (e.g. startx aborts etc.). Anyone have any ideas? -- 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/
