Re: setup hangs during postinstall

["Lee D. Rothstein" <lee at veritech dot com>]

In various posts over the last several days it has been implied
that the Cygwin 'setup.exe' post-install hang only occurs when
Cygwin 'setup.exe' is invoked from Explorer. I have now shown, on
my two systems, running respectively Windows 2000 on an AMD
Athlon, 1 GHz, and Windows XP on an Pentium 4 Mobile, 2 GHz (1993
MHz) that 'setup.exe' hangs during the posinstall phase,
regardless of whether 'setup.exe' is invoked from, any of the
following:

 1.  Double clicking the 'setup.exe' icon/item in Explorer folder
     containing it
 2.  Internet Explorer http://Cygwin.com link
 3.  Start Menu 'Run' box
 4.  Windows DOS console command line
 
(In all cases, above and on both machines, I have made sure that
the latest copy of Cygwin 'setup.exe' is running.)

If the other Cygwin core developers cannot replicate this
problem, perhaps this is a function of the other software
installed on the system. Some questions that seem relevant to
this issue would seem to include:

Do the core Cygwin developers have installed the following?:

 * Latest Windows 2K/XP updates?
 * Norton AntiVirus (NAV)?
 * NAV, latest code and virust definitions?
   (Yes, I've tried exiting the virus scanner, first -- no
   effect)
 * Microsoft Office applications?
 * Multiport interconnect disks (Firewire, USB2, SCSI)?
 
'PS -W' on my Athlon Win2K system, with 'setup.exe' hung in the
postinstall phase, yields:

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
$ ps -W
      PID    PPID    PGID     WINPID  TTY  UID    STIME COMMAND
        8       0       0          8    ?    0 15:24:48 *** unknown ***
      168       0       0        168    ?    0 09:58:02 \SystemRoot\System32\smss.exe
      212       0       0        212    ?    0 09:58:51 \??\C:\WINNT\system32\winlogon.exe
      240       0       0        240    ?    0 09:58:53 C:\WINNT\system32\services.exe
      252       0       0        252    ?    0 09:58:53 C:\WINNT\system32\lsass.exe
      436       0       0        436    ?    0 09:58:58 C:\WINNT\system32\svchost.exe
      464       0       0        464    ?    0 09:58:58 C:\WINNT\system32\spoolsv.exe
      492       0       0        492    ?    0 09:58:58 C:\_Programs\APC\mainserv.exe
      524       0       0        524    ?    0 09:59:02 C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccEvtMgr.exe
      544       0       0        544    ?    0 09:59:03 C:\WINNT\System32\svchost.exe
      568       0       0        568    ?    0 09:59:04 C:\Program Files\Norton AntiVirus\navapsvc.exe
      632       0       0        632    ?    0 09:59:06 C:\Program Files\NMapWin\bin\nmapserv.exe
      584       0       0        584    ?    0 09:59:07 C:\Program Files\Norton AntiVirus\AdvTools\NPROTECT.EXE
      828       0       0        828    ?    0 09:59:09 C:\WINNT\system32\regsvc.exe
      900       0       0        900    ?    0 09:59:13 C:\WINNT\system32\MSTask.exe
      924       0       0        924    ?    0 09:59:16 C:\WINNT\system32\stisvc.exe
     1008       0       0       1008    ?    0 09:59:16 C:\WINNT\System32\WBEM\WinMgmt.exe
     1020       0       0       1020    ?    0 09:59:16 C:\WINNT\System32\mspmspsv.exe
     1032       0       0       1032    ?    0 09:59:16 C:\WINNT\system32\svchost.exe
     1100       0       0       1100    ?    0 09:59:27 C:\WINNT\Explorer.EXE
     1252       0       0       1252    ?    0 10:00:00 C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccApp.exe
     1312       0       0       1312    ?    0 10:00:02 C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\SymTray.exe
     1344       0       0       1344    ?    0 10:00:03 C:\PROGRA~1\Adaptec\DirectCD\directcd.exe
     1384       0       0       1384    ?    0 10:00:05 C:\Program Files\Common Files\Real\Update_OB\realsched.exe
     1396       0       0       1396    ?    0 10:00:05 C:\Program Files\Java\j2re1.4.2\bin\jusched.exe
     1260       0       0       1260    ?    0 10:00:06 C:\Program Files\QuickTime\qttask.exe
     1368       0       0       1368    ?    0 10:00:10 C:\PROGRA~1\Adaptec\EASYCD~1\CreateCD\CreateCD.exe
     1488       0       0       1488    ?    0 10:00:25 C:\_Programs\APC\apcsystray.exe
     1068       0       0       1068    ?    0 11:34:51 G:\Software_Archives\FOSS_Updates\Cygwin\setup.exe
     1160       1    1160       1160  con  500 12:00:08 /usr/bin/sh
     1272    1160    1160       1272  con  500 12:00:09 /usr/bin/sh
      580       0       0        580    ?    0 12:08:21 c:\_progr~1\textpad\textpad.exe
     1472       0       0       1472    ?    0 12:34:54 C:\_Programs\TextPad\TextPad.exe
      528       0       0        528    ?    0 12:50:56 C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe
     1528       1    1528       1528  con  500 12:50:56 /usr/bin/bash
     1560       0       0       1560    ?    0 12:51:13 C:\_Programs\Cygwin\bin\ps.exe
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

My tray-based background tasks include:

 * APC UPS Power Chute monitor
 * MS chain interconnect hardware manager (for SCSI, FireWire)
 * MS speaker/audio control
 * NAV scanner (when not disabled)
 * Adaptec create CD
 
One other difference that may be relevant is that I install all
of Cygwin on my systems.

Attached is the cygcheck from the Athlon system.

--
Lee D. Rothstein -- lee@veritech.com
VeriTech -- 603-424-2900
7 Merry Meeting Drive
Merrimack, NH 03054-2934



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