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Re: Setup 2.358 Hangs During Post-Install Script
- From: Dan Hatton <dan dot hatton at btinternet dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 11:31:13 +0100
- Subject: Re: Setup 2.358 Hangs During Post-Install Script
- References: <Pine.CYG.4.55.0308221149520.1652@DAN-HATTON.geol.ucl.ac.uk>
Having originally found this problem with Setup 2.358 under Windows
2000, I've now reproduced it with Setup 2.364 under Windows XP, and on
a total of 3 independent machines. And it's still happening as of
last night.
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Dan Hatton wrote:
> I've been trying to update my cygwin packages since yesterday
> afternoon, and have found that setup.exe repeatably gets to 99%
> complete, then hangs. On one occasion, the hang lasted for over 18
> hours.
>
> Setup claims to be trying to run a script called
> /etc/postinstall/XFree86-bin-icons.sh, which is a symlink to
> /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86-bin-icons.sh.
>
> After cancelling setup, I can still run Cygwin and XFree86 (phew.)
>
> Any ideas, please?
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Thanks
Dan
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