setup hangs during postinstall

Steve Kelem s_kelem@pacbell.net
Wed Oct 8 16:49:00 GMT 2003


I'm trying to update to the latest cygwin (1.5.5-1). Setup install a lot 
of things, said I had to reboot, and then proceeded with the postinstall 
step.
Setup is stuck, with the window saying:
Progress
  This page displays the progress of the download or installation.
RUnning...
No package
/etc/postinstall/XFree86-bin-icons.sh

When I run that file manually, it completes.

Also, there are a LOT of files in /etc/postinstall.  Can they be 
deleted? Should they be deleted automatically?

Steve Kelem

% cd /etc/postinstall
% ls -l
total 1413
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None           59 Oct  6 18:22 XFree86-xserv.sh*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None          218 Oct  4 15:55 XFree86-prog.sh*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None         2688 Sep 30 09:22 
postinstall-lilypond.sh.done*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None          101 Sep 29 09:31 
XFree86-bin-icons.sh*
-rw-r--r--    1 kelem    None      1351680 Sep 25 09:43 
gcc-mingw-3.3.1-20030804-1.tar
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None          766 Sep 25 09:43 gcc-mingw.sh.done*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None         1205 Sep 20 14:57 
libdb4.1-devel.sh.done*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None         6708 Sep 19 06:41 iu-config.sh.done*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None         2730 Sep 18 12:30 post-texmf.sh*
-rw-r--r--    1 kelem    None           55 Sep 18 08:53 tidy.sh.done
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None          329 Sep  6 13:18 pinfo.sh.done*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None           10 Sep  5 12:25 cgoban.sh.done*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None         1393 Sep  4 10:51 
cygwin-doc-postinstall.sh.done*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None           59 Sep  3 16:56 
XFree86-xserv.sh.done*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None          345 Sep  3 14:21 update-info-dir.sh*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None          345 Sep  3 14:21 
update-info-dir.sh.done*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None          114 Sep  3 08:34 gsl.sh.done*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None         4013 Sep  2 18:09 sysvinit.sh.done*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None          267 Aug 29 04:59 
post-lilypond.sh.done*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None          261 Aug 12 13:36 cron.sh.done*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None          166 Aug 12 12:56 robots.sh.done*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None          266 Aug 12 10:05 
base-files-profile.sh.done*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None          101 Aug 11 10:21 
XFree86-bin-icons.sh.done*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None          218 Aug  3 18:14 
XFree86-prog.sh.done*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None          222 Aug  2 12:36 terminfo.sh.done*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None          140 Aug  1 11:24 gnugo.sh.done*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None          619 Jul 31 21:42 
XFree86-fscl.sh.done*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None          619 Jul 31 21:42 
XFree86-f100.sh.done*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None          766 Jul 31 21:38 XFree86-lib.sh.done*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None          619 Jul  8 18:33 
XFree86-fenc.sh.done*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None          619 Jul  8 18:33 
XFree86-fnts.sh.done*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None          144 Jun 13 13:11 
automake-devel.sh.done*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None          150 May 21 04:45 gnupg.sh.done*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None          163 May  2 11:57 splint.sh.done*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None           60 May  2 04:46 rpm.sh.done*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None          155 Apr 23 23:32 cvs.sh.done*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None          143 Apr 15 20:59 
libtool-devel.sh.done*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None          523 Apr 10 00:55 apache-php.sh.done*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None          849 Apr  5  2003 
base-files-mketc.sh.done*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None          141 Mar 22  2003 
libgdbm-devel.sh.done*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None          217 Mar 13  2003 grace.sh.done*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None           87 Mar  5  2003 tcsh.sh.done*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None          188 Feb 28  2003 passwd-grp.sh.done*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None          299 Dec 17  2002 wget.sh.done*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None         5784 Dec 16  2002 emacs.sh.done*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None          160 Dec  5  2002 
autoconf-devel.sh.done*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None         2775 Nov 11  2002 initscripts.sh.done*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None          173 Oct 10  2002 readline.sh.done*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None          276 Oct  3  2002 profile.sh.done*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None          144 Sep 19  2002 
gettext-devel.sh.done*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None          324 Aug 25  2002 enscript.sh.done*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None           88 Jul 30  2002 ncftp.sh.done*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None         2250 Jul 22  2002 
libpng12-devel.sh.done*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None         2250 Jul 22  2002 
libpng10-devel.sh.done*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None          434 Jul 16  2002 
squid-postinstall.sh.done*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None          244 Jul 12  2002 cygutils.sh.done*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None          219 May 16  2002 indent.sh.done*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None          289 May 10  2002 apache.sh.done*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None          142 May  6  2002 bzip2.sh.done*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None          200 May  5  2002 
apache-mod_ssl.sh.done*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None          215 May  5  2002 
apache-mod_auth_mysql.sh.done*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None          215 May  5  2002 
apache-mod_auth_ntsec.sh.done*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None          376 Apr 19  2002 libpng.sh.done*
-rw-r--r--    1 kelem    None          287 Apr 15  2002 cygwin-doc.sh.done
-rw-r--r--    1 kelem    None            0 Feb 26  2002 passwd-grp.bat.done
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None          141 Feb 19  2002 gdbm.sh.done*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None          741 Jan 23  2002 post-tetex.sh.done*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None           79 Jan  6  2002 indent-info.sh.done*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kelem    None          144 Dec 13  2001 gettext.sh.done*




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