Greetings, Don MacDougall! >> I wouldn't try to restart the install without figuring out why >> /etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-basic.sh didn't complete. Is there >> anything >> at all in /var/log/ that might provide a clue? Usually setup writes >> temporary >> files while it's executing postinstall scripts.
> There wasn't even a /var/log directory until the install was finished. What > I finally did to get it to finish was to move all the texlive-collection > files out of the postinstall directory and the install process finished all > the rest quite rapidly. Then I put them back, except for the language > packages, and reran the install program and one by one moved the files back > out again if they stalled. In the end there were 8 that wouldn't run. In > the temporary logs are a lot of error messages similar to the following > three: > Can't fork, trying again in 5 seconds at /usr/bin/updmap line 59. > 7 [main] perl 8088 child_info_fork::abort: unable to remap Fcntl.dll > to same address as parent (0x2E0000) - try running rebaseall > Can't fork, trying again in 5 seconds at /usr/bin/updmap line 59. > 6 [main] perl 8056 child_info_fork::abort: address space needed by > 'MD5.dll' (0x2D0000) is already occupied > Can't fork, trying again in 5 seconds at /usr/bin/updmap line 59. > 5 [main] perl 8076 child_info_fork::abort: address space needed by > 'IO.dll' (0x2F0000) is already occupied This could happen, if you install too many packages on a 32-bit Cygwin, or there's an interference in your system that break memory layout of applications. (I.e. BLODA) > I looked for updmap but there doesn't appear to be even a /usr/bin > directory, so I must be looking in the wrong place. You're looking in the wrong place. Whole Cygwin is installed in that directory. > In any case, I did get the install to complete by this rather ugly method > except for those 8 packages and all the language files. I don't know if this > method will have fouled up anything else or not. > If the log files would be of any value to you, I've put them here: > http://www.macdougalls.net/cygwinlogs/ -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@yandex.ru) 24.10.2014, <15:26> Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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
