Hi all, I've been moving on this issue, which still remains unresolved, and I would like to share with you all few improvements I think could help on better focus where the problem could be.
Still there is no way to let the "setup.exe" complete properly its run and it always ends on the last part, while running the 000-postinstall and on the log file a bash error "couldn't allocate" appears. (all details on this can be found in my previous message, just as a summary, I'm trying to install 1.7.1 on Windows XP Sp3). Well, apart form checking all the possible devices or software which could have eventually interfered without success, I simply ended the setup.exe process which was still stuck at that point, by pressing the cancel button. The installation process ends before executing all the scripts contained into the /etc/postinstall I simply open a bash shell, I execute them manually in alphabetic order and none of them ends with any error. Still, the previous bash.exe process which hanged during the standard setup with the above mentioned error, is still alive and I kill it with the Windows Task Manager. At this point a first question: 1) Is it enough to run the shell scripts included into /etc/postinstall to properly complete their package installation or there should be something else to do which is normally done by the setup.exe process? Afterwards I was trying to execute again the "setup.exe" to add new packages (vim). Again the setup proces goes well till exactly the same point where he tries to execute the vim.sh under /etc/postinstall and again it hangs with the same bash error. I terminate the setup by clicking on cancel button, I run manually the vim.sh and I kill the bash.exe process with the Windows Task Manager. Obviously, invocating bash.exe within the setup.exe process leads to its failure in this specific environment. Hope this will help to fix it. Any feedback will be greatly appreciated. All the best Dario -- 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
