On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Michael Robbert wrote: > A co-worker and I are trying to debug a problem that we came across > while trying to do a new install of Cygwin on a clients computer. We > have the current version of Setup.exe(2.416) and we have tried to > install from a couple of mirrors, but even when doing just a base > install the process hangs on two postinstall scripts. > base-files-mketc.sh and base-files-profile.sh > If you hit cancel in setup you end up with a partially working system. I > have been able to open a bash shell and kill those processes and the > rest of the scripts run fine. I then try to run the scripts manually and > they still hang. I have run them with sh -x to see where they're getting > stuck and I have found that it is any time they try to assign a variable > to the output of a command i.e.: OSNAME="`/bin/uname -s`" > I can reproduce the problem with just that line on from a bash or sh > shell prompt. I have also tried to strace this command, but I get no > output at all. Setting variables to a simple string works fine. > > What is interesting is that the problem happens on both my laptop and > the clients workstation, but not my co-workers laptop. They are all > running XP SP1. I also can not reproduce the problem on another laptop > that is running Windows 2000 SP4. There are a few less minor patches on > my co-workers laptop, but that is the only difference that we can think > of. What else can we look at to find out why this problem is happening > on two computers, but not others? > Maybe the mailing list archives or google?
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