Solved: Post-install hang

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 02:07:20PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Feb  5 13:59, Sorin Srbu wrote:
>> >Problem description: After a full install, the postinstall script runs, but
>> >stops at /etc/postinstall/00bash.sh. It just sits there for hours, and I have
>> to
>> >kill the process.
>> 
>> I found a really old setup.exe lying around on our department file/software
>> repository, v2.125.2.10 from 2002. Running this one apparently downloaded and
>> installed something and now bash and even X11 works.
>
>I don't think it has anything to do with using an older setup.exe.
>
>There was a problem with the setup.exe configuration file (called
>setup.ini) on cygwin.com the last few days.  This has been fixed
>yesterday so the corrected configuration has probably been propagated to
>all mirrors by now.

Er, what was the problem with the setup.ini?  AFAIK, it just wasn't updated.
There shouldn't have been any actual problems with the file.

cgf

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