X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Yahoo-SMTP: ljGqCTiswBDbNeF_1cTo121dV0O.G9YAdw-- Message-ID: <4B21E8D2.1010402@kringlecottage.com> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:38:10 -0600 From: Dave & Diane User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Charles Wilson CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Is 1.7 ready?/Installation Issues References: <873a3i5phc DOT fsf AT jondo DOT cante DOT net> <4B21DA6F DOT 7020706 AT kringlecottage DOT com> <4B21E157 DOT 20701 AT cwilson DOT fastmail DOT fm> In-Reply-To: <4B21E157.20701@cwilson.fastmail.fm> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Thanks for the speedy reply Chuck - I'm game! I did as you suggest and it sped along to some degree but of course a lot of tools weren't in the path, so I had to add /usr/bin in to the path before running the for loop.... Interestingly when I did, I got: /bin/bash: /etc/postinstall/base-files-mketc.sh: Permission denied /bin/bash: /etc/postinstall/base-files-profile.sh: Permission denied Looking at these I see the exe bit isn't set: $ ls -l base-files-mketc.sh -rw-r--r-- 1 Dave Trollope 4294967295 665 2009-12-06 04:33 base-files-mketc.sh $ ls -l base-files-profile.sh -rw-r--r-- 1 Dave Trollope 4294967295 530 2009-12-06 04:33 base-files-profile.sh Other .sh files have the exe bit set... Is there a problem with the permissions on the packages being downloaded? $ ls -l total 33 -rwxr-xr-x 1 Dave Trollope 4294967295 6154 2009-05-14 05:28 000-cygwin-post-inst all.sh.done -rw-r--r-- 1 Dave Trollope 4294967295 665 2009-12-06 04:33 base-files-mketc.sh -rw-r--r-- 1 Dave Trollope 4294967295 530 2009-12-06 04:33 base-files-profile.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 Dave Trollope 4294967295 1063 2009-07-01 20:20 bash.sh.done -rwxr-xr-x 1 Dave Trollope 4294967295 518 2008-12-17 16:16 coreutils.sh.done -rwxr-xr-x 1 Dave Trollope 4294967295 406 2009-10-14 18:19 font-adobe-dpi75.sh.done -rwxr-xr-x 1 Dave Trollope 4294967295 1645 2009-10-14 18:22 font-alias.sh.done -rwxr-xr-x 1 Dave Trollope 4294967295 399 2009-10-14 19:06 font-misc-misc.sh.done -rwxr-xr-x 1 Dave Trollope 4294967295 52 2009-09-24 21:30 fontconfig.sh.done -rwxr-xr-x 1 Dave Trollope 4294967295 461 2007-04-06 07:13 man.sh.done -rwxr-xr-x 1 Dave Trollope 4294967295 805 2009-05-11 06:24 passwd-grp.sh.done -rwxr-xr-x 1 Dave Trollope 4294967295 527 2009-11-30 21:48 terminfo.sh.done -rwxr-xr-x 1 Dave Trollope 4294967295 236 2009-11-26 10:04 terminfo0.sh.done -rwxr-xr-x 1 Dave Trollope 4294967295 415 2008-08-10 10:34 update-info-dir.sh.done After fixing those permissions and rerunning them things look good. I started a cygwin command shell with bash and it detected it was the first install and copied the users default settings/profile etc as I would expect. I'm still suspicous that packages already marked "done" didn't really complete cleanly so I'll check that out tomorrow but I suspect there is something in the bash package with the wrong permissions or the mketc/profile.sh post install scripts don't for some reason get their permissions changed. Thanks for the help - and I hope this helps you ( or Corinna ;-) ) find something that needs before going live with 1.7. I'll let you know if I find anything else odd tomorrow as I proceed further with getting it set up to take over from 1.5 Cheers Dave Charles Wilson wrote: >Dave & Diane wrote: > > > >>I appreciate that I'm not giving you a lot to go on here, but my gut >>tells me there are some serious gremlins in the guts and in the >>installation still, it certainly prevents me from moving my 1.5 system >>to 1.7 at work and I'm worried that if 1.7 is released you'll be >>overwhelmed with support requests that are eerily similar. This is why I >>ask if 1.7 is ready for prime time. Perhaps I'm just being unlucky, and >>thats ok. >> >> > >I'm assuming you've checked for BLODAs, and that you have no known or >suspected BLODAs running. In that case... > >My gut says that the postinstall scripts are encountering the dreaded >"*** unable to remap" error, which (a) takes a few seconds before cygwin >gives up and reports it (to setup; you won't see the error message), and >(b) leaves a zombie process running around. If this occurs every time >setup tries to run a postinstall script, and there are 40-50 such >scripts in a typical 'virgin' installation, then...pain. > >My suggestion is: if everything has actually been downloaded and >installed, and only the postinstall scripts are causing problems, then >kill setup, and manually: > >launch cmd >cd C:\cygwin-1.7\bin >ash >rebaseall -v >for f in /etc/postinstall/*.sh ; do > /bin/bash -c $f && mv $f $f.done >done > >But...take all that with a grain of salt. It's just my gut feeling with >very little evidence to back it up. > >-- >Chuck > >-- >Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html >FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ >Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html >Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > > > -- Diane & Dave http://www.velvetstarbears.com/ http://www.kringlecottage.com/ Fortune: The difference between America and England is that the English think 100 miles is a long distance and the Americans think 100 years is a long time. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple