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Re: New cygwin install hanging on postinstall


On 21/01/16 21:17, KARR, DAVID wrote:
-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-owner <at> cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner <at> cygwin.com] On
Behalf Of Achim Gratz
Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2016 12:10 PM
To: cygwin <at> cygwin.com
Subject: Re: New cygwin install hanging on postinstall

KARR, DAVID writes:
While it's sitting here, I dumped out "/var/log/setup.log.full".
Here is the end of the file:
----------------
The following DLLs couldn't be rebased because they were in use:
   /usr/bin/cygssp-0.dll
   /usr/bin/cygperl5_22.dll
   /usr/bin/cyggcc_s-1.dll
   /usr/bin/cygcrypt-0.dll
   /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.22/i686-cygwin-threads-
64int/auto/List/Util/Util.
dll
   /usr/lib/perl5/5.22/i686-cygwin-threads-64int/auto/IO/IO.dll
   /usr/lib/perl5/5.22/i686-cygwin-threads-
64int/auto/File/Glob/Glob.dll
   /usr/lib/perl5/5.22/i686-cygwin-threads-
64int/auto/Fcntl/Fcntl.dll
   /usr/lib/perl5/5.22/i686-cygwin-threads-
64int/auto/Encode/Encode.dll
   /usr/lib/perl5/5.22/i686-cygwin-threads-
64int/auto/Digest/MD5/MD5.dll
   /usr/lib/perl5/5.22/i686-cygwin-threads-64int/auto/Cwd/Cwd.dll
2016/01/21 09:15:40 running: C:\cygwin\bin\dash.exe
"/etc/postinstall/0p_texlive
_prep.dash"
2016/01/21 09:19:20 note: Nothing needed to be installed
2016/01/21 09:19:20 Ending cygwin install
-----------
So this isn't a fresh install and in fact there is not only some
Cygwin
process running but a full blown Perl that has loaded a number of
modules.  How'd you manage to do that before Cygwin was ready
installing?  Are you perhaps reporting from a follow-on invocation
of
setup.exe after the first install already failed?
Beats the heck out of me.  I didn't have Cygwin installed.  I ran the installer.  It hung at this point.  I eventually cancelled it, because it obviously wasn't going to complete.  This output is from one of the later retries.  I never attempted to run anything installed in cygwin, I'm just trying to complete the installation.

If setup has been killed and attempted a second time, it could be that one of the post-install scripts was left running.


For your current case, you need to get rid of _all_ running Cygwin
processes.  Best idea is to open a shell and issue

   /usr/bin/rebase-trigger fullrebase
   /usr/bin/pkill .

(you need to have procps installed for this command to be
available).
Then run setup again to have it re-do the rebase and run all
postinstall
scripts that failed before.  But I'm still interested how that
initial
failure could have occured, so if you could maybe look in
/var/log/setup.log if something indicates what happened there that
would
be good.
More weirdness.  I ran a mintty window, and I ran those command lines, but it gives me lots of lines like this:
-------------
2 [main] bash 28452 child_info_fork::abort: C:\cygwin\bin\cygiconv-2.dll: Loaded to different address: parent(0x4D0000) != child(0x2E0000)
bash: fork: retry: No child processes
-------------

I don't believe either of these command lines did anything, but just to be sure, after I ran them I killed the window an reran setup, and got the same symptoms.

How many Cygwin packages are you attempting to install? You mentioned that you were installing on 32-bit Win 7, so you must be installing 32-bit Cygwin. The amount of address space is rather limited on 32-bit, so installing a very large number of packages could give the symptoms you're seeing.

Dave.


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