installer crash on post-instal scripts

[Bobby McNulty]

Kris Matthews wrote:

>What worked for me:
>
>1. Completely wipe out existing cygwin installation
>2. Install all of cygwin *except* X.
>3. .. Install X stuff, by itself.
>
>Regards,
>Kristopher
>
>On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Jing Zhou wrote:
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>>Hi Kris,
>>
>>I have the same problem of installing full cygwin 1.5.12.1. It froze
>>at 93% when installing postinstall in X11 directory. The disk size
>>continued growing. It was 2G when I eventally decided to delete it.
>>Then my computer crashed.
>>
>>It seems to me that you found a solution. Could you please post the solution?
>>
>>My computer is windows xp home.
>>
>>thanks,
>>
>>-Jing
>>
>>Kris's original message is:
>>
>>installer crash on post-instal scripts
>>
>>From: Kris Matthews <krism at evilpen dot net>
>>To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
>>Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 11:51:05 -0500 (EST)
>>Subject: installer crash on post-instal scripts
>>
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>>When I try to install cygwin on windows xp, the installer hangs at around
>>90%, when it's running the X post install scripts. (From a full install)
>>
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>>
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Yes, and KDE works for me now. Don't forget to rebaseall.



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