Mail Archives: cygwin/2010/02/01/16:36:04
I stand (actually I'm sitting) corrected. :)
The reason I deleted the .sh script was because it would never run to
completion on subsequent installs. I also forgot to add that I went though
and selected reinstall for all my packages to avoid the problem you pointed
out. It took a while, but everything is working for me.
Sincerely,
Brian S. Wilson
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From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Sent: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:13:03 -0500
Subject: Re: Windows 7
> On 01/29/2010 08:45 PM, Brian Wilson wrote:
> > I had a similar problem upgrading on XP. I think my issue was related to
a
> > heap space allocation issue which prevents the shell from running during
the
> > installation. I found that failed installations left shell processes
running,
> > but not doing anything useful.
> >
> > Check the documentation as I believe there is a fix for the heap space
issue.
> > In my case, I killed these useless shells and that allowed the Cygwin bash
> > shell to start up with out heap space errors. I cleaned out the
> > /etc/postinstall directory by removing any shell scripts (rm *.sh) and
> > rerunning the setup. Cygwin installed okay for me after that.
>
> There's no reason to remove postinstall scripts and, in fact, very
> good reason to not do so - your installation could be incomplete.
> If things are working for you and you have no complaints, there's no
> reason to revisit this issue but in case others reading this thread
> thought this would be a good thing to try, I wanted something on
> record that would recommend against it.
>
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> >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
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