Setup of texlive-collection-basic waits in postinstall/0p_texlive_prep.dash

[Marco Atzeri]

On 30/06/2016 11:11, Pavel Kudrna wrote:
> Hi,
> I have problem installing texlive-collection-basic on 32bit XP. It is
> not fresh install.
>
> If I select texlive only the Cygwin Setup finishes successfully,
> /var/log/setup.log shows
>
>> 2016/06/30 09:30:33 Starting cygwin install, version 2.874
>> 2016/06/30 09:30:33 User has backup/restore rights
>> 2016/06/30 09:30:33 Current Directory: C:\temp\cygwin
>> 2016/06/30 09:30:33 Could not open service McShield for query, start
>> and stop. McAfee may not be installed, or we don't have access.
>> 2016/06/30 09:30:36 source: network install
>> 2016/06/30 09:30:36 root: C:\PROGRA~1\cygwin system
>> 2016/06/30 09:30:37 Selected local directory: C:\temp\cygwin
>> 2016/06/30 09:30:38 net: Direct
>> 2016/06/30 09:30:40 site:
>> http://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/
>> 2016/06/30 09:31:01 NOTE!  User refused suggested missing
>> dependencies!  Expect some packages to give errors or not function at
>> all.

This eventually is a potential problem


>> 2016/06/30 09:31:03 Extracting from
>> file://C:\temp\cygwin/http%3a%2f%2fftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de%2fpub%2fMirrors%2fsources.redhat.com%2fcygwin%2f/x86/release/texlive/texlive-20160520-1.tar.xz
>>
>> 2016/06/30 09:31:05 Changing gid back to original
>> 2016/06/30 09:31:05 running: C:\PROGRA~1\cygwin\bin\dash.exe
>> "/etc/postinstall/0p_000_autorebase.dash"
>> 2016/06/30 09:31:15 running: C:\PROGRA~1\cygwin\bin\dash.exe
>> "/etc/postinstall/0p_texlive_prep.dash"
>> 2016/06/30 09:31:16 running: C:\PROGRA~1\cygwin\bin\dash.exe
>> "/etc/postinstall/0p_update-info-dir.dash"
>> 2016/06/30 09:31:17 running: C:\PROGRA~1\cygwin\bin\dash.exe
>> "/etc/postinstall/zp_texlive_finish.dash"
>> 2016/06/30 09:31:17 Changing gid to Administrators
>> 2016/06/30 09:31:19 note: Installation Complete
>> 2016/06/30 09:31:19 Ending cygwin install
>
> Newertheless in /etc/postinstall files I see files
>
> 0p_000_autorebase.dash
> 0p_update-info-dir.dash
> 0p_texlive_prep.dash
> zp_texlive_finish.dash
>
> without .done suffix. Is it already symptom of problem?
>

No. These special ones are run every time setup runs to handle
key updates.

>
> The main problem is installing texlive-collection-basic. Setup waits at
> /etc/postinstall/0p_texlive_prep.dash while
> in /var/log the file setup.log.runXa03548 grows by repeating lines
>
>       2 [main] perl 3928 child_info_fork::abort: unable to remap
> Util.dll to same address as parent (0x6F0000) - try running rebaseall
> Can't fork, trying again in 5 seconds at
> /usr/share/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm line 228.
>       1 [main] perl 2520 child_info_fork::abort: unable to remap Cwd.dll
> to same address as parent (0x6C0000) - try running rebaseall
> Can't fork, trying again in 5 seconds at
> /usr/share/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm line 228.

How many packages have you installed ?
0x6C0000 is a very low address


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