RE: Setup 2.358 Hangs During Post-Install Script

["Hannu E K Nevalainen \(garbage mail\)" <garbage_collector at telia dot com>]

> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf
> Of Dan Hatton

> 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?

 http://cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/setup-2.415.tar.bz2 ?

/Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE - 59?16.37'N, 17?12.60'E
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 This one has new features (compared to setup-2.340.2.5.exe) that I like;
it keeps _almost_ all settings as they were at the last run. i.e. less
clicking - real nice.

*minor* hitches remaining:
 - "Create Icon on Desktop" stays set *unconditionally*
    unlike "Add Icon To Startup menu"
 - Regeneration of MD5-sums every time "Install from internet" is
   not selected.
  (Can't these be saved in a time-stamped file?
   Then timestamps compared to the download directory timestamp?
   Resetting the file timestamp to the directory's after re-genration.)
 - No GUI resize (Yes I know, a major rewrite)

And NO, I *won't* subscribe to cygwin-apps at this time.

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