On Aug 12 07:37, Jeremy Ramer wrote: > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 3:59 AM, Corinna Vinschen > <corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com> wrote: > > On Aug 11 09:18, Jeremy Ramer wrote: > >> I recently upgraded from cygwin 1.5 to 1.7. At the end of the install > >> there were errors with some of the postinstall scripts. From the > >> setup.full.log: > >> > >> 2010/08/11 08:39:53 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile > >> /etc/postinstall/bash.sh > >> ln: creating symbolic link `/dev/stdin': File exists > >> 2010/08/11 08:39:54 abnormal exit: exit code=1 > >> 2010/08/11 08:39:54 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile > >> /etc/postinstall/passwd-grp.sh > >> 2010/08/11 08:39:55 abnormal exit: exit code=1 > >> > >> > >> I tried manually running the scripts with mixed results > >> > >> $ bash --norc --noprofile /etc/postinstall/bash.sh ; echo $? > >> 0 > >> > >> $ bash --norc --noprofile /etc/postinstall/passwd-grp.sh ; echo $? > >> 1 > >> > >> I tired manually running the commands inside passwd-grp.sh and they > >> all return 0. So I'm not sure what exactly is failing. Is there > >> anything I should do to investigate? > > > > That's probably a fault in the postinstall scripts. It would be nice if > > you could provide more details about what fails exactly in the script, > > or better, what in the script has a non-0 exit code. That would help us > > lazy maintainers to fix the scripts faster. > > The issue with the passwd-grp.sh script seems to be the last two lines. > > [ "$created_passwd" = "yes" ] && /bin/chgrp --silent root /etc/passwd > [ "$created_group" = "yes" ] && /bin/chgrp --silent root /etc/group > > I verified that $created_passwd and $created_group were both no so > both conditionals will fail. But because the last conditional is the > last thing run, the script returns 1. Adding an exit 0 to the script > fixes it, but I'm not sure if that accomplishes what you want from the > script.
Thanks, I think it will. John, that's your script. Would you mind to update it? Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
