RE: Cygwin Installation Problems on Windows Vista (killing sh.exe helps)
lent wrote: On the semi-broken installation: Actually, the problem was that the whatever vital job that /etc/postinstall/gnuplot.sh was doing never completed. 30 minutes of wait time by multiple Vista users on multiple brands of spanking new laptops indicates some sort of interaction bug of these shell scripts (or the programs they run) with the wonders of Vista. This hang at 99% forever symptom persists even with setting the Properties of setup.exe to run in Windows XP(SP2) compatibility mode. It's a very disappointing installation experience for novice programmers. Our XP and Windows 2000 users do not have these problems as setup.exe completes just fine. Thanks again for your attention to this annoying bug. Chris Lent Actually I'm having this same problem right now with good ol' Windows XP. If it doesn't hang in /etc/postinstall/update-info-dir.sh, it hangs somewhere else. I've walked away and let it run for hours. There's something wrong with the scripts. And this is three months later. -Q -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Cygwin-Installation-Problems-on-Windows-Vista-tp9889324p14339689.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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: Cygwin Installation Problems on Windows Vista (killing sh.exe helps)
For getting the installation to keep going, killing off an sh.exe process via Task Manager's End Process, moves things along. This also seems to need to be done for texf (I think that was the name) package. At least we get to the final setup screen this way :-) Chris Lent Kevin Hilton-3 wrote: Here are the two files I found broken on the installation: gnuplot.sh postinstall-ec-fonts-mftraced.sh And just for kicks How do I manually change the passwd and group files. Although under windows Im listed as an administrator, cygwin states my group as none. And Im unable to chmod chgroup these two files. Never had this problem with XP. -- Kevin Hilton -- 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/ -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Cygwin-Installation-Problems-on-Windows-Vista-tf3542482.html#a12780123 Sent from the Cygwin Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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: Cygwin Installation Problems on Windows Vista (killing sh.exe helps)
On 19 September 2007 16:42, lent wrote: For getting the installation to keep going, killing off an sh.exe process via Task Manager's End Process, moves things along. This also seems to need to be done for texf (I think that was the name) package. Hell, you can make the whole thing move along even better, by simply killing 'setup.exe' instead of sh.exe. Sure, it may not be correct, but at least it's fast, eh? Or you could wait for it to finish doing whatever vital job it was doing. Your choice. At least we get to the final setup screen this way :-) Works my way too, *and* with the added advantage you don't end up with a semi-broken installation. 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: Cygwin Installation Problems on Windows Vista (killing sh.exe helps)
Dave Korn wrote: On 19 September 2007 16:42, lent wrote: Hi Dave, thanks for the quick reply. Sorry, but I wasn't able to find the solution you refer to for the problem of setup.exe hanging in Windows Vista. Where can I find it? For getting the installation to keep going, killing off an sh.exe process via Task Manager's End Process, moves things along. This also seems to need to be done for texf (I think that was the name) package. Hell, you can make the whole thing move along even better, by simply killing 'setup.exe' instead of sh.exe. Sure, it may not be correct, but at least it's fast, eh? Or you could wait for it to finish doing whatever vital job it was doing. Your choice. At least we get to the final setup screen this way :-) Works my way too, *and* with the added advantage you don't end up with a semi-broken installation. I'm new to the cygwin development community and would love to chase this problem down and resolve it once and for all. Is there a way to log the shell scripts as they are run from setup.exe? On the semi-broken installation: Actually, the problem was that the whatever vital job that /etc/postinstall/gnuplot.sh was doing never completed. 30 minutes of wait time by multiple Vista users on multiple brands of spanking new laptops indicates some sort of interaction bug of these shell scripts (or the programs they run) with the wonders of Vista. This hang at 99% forever symptom persists even with setting the Properties of setup.exe to run in Windows XP(SP2) compatibility mode. It's a very disappointing installation experience for novice programmers. Our XP and Windows 2000 users do not have these problems as setup.exe completes just fine. Do I want to kill any part of a carefully crafted installation process? Of course not :-) The problem is if the user kills setup.exe, they wind up with a more broken installation, and lack the Cygwin Desktop icon and the Cygwin Start Menu entry. Killing sh.exe (hopefully the right one) moves the installation process past the block of /etc/postinstall/gnuplot.sh. Our reason for using Cygwin is to teach young engineering students about C programming in a command line environment. If they can't install it on their brand new laptop, I have a difficult time having them use it :-) Thanks again for your attention to this annoying bug. Chris Lent cheers, DaveK -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Cygwin-Installation-Problems-on-Windows-Vista-tf3542482.html#a12786663 Sent from the Cygwin Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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/
