Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours

2014-10-30 Thread Don MacDougall
and am able to do routine bash commands, so I presume that all is working. So, why the postinst scripts failed to run before, now becomes an academic matter for me. Thanks again for the help. Don MacDougall -- View this message in context: http://cygwin.1069669.n5.nabble.com/Setup-2-774-t

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours

2014-10-28 Thread Don MacDougall
s a way without starting over from scratch I'd be interested in a pointer to any documentation on it. And your English seems near perfect to me. I wouldn't have known your weren't a native speaker if you hadn't let on. Thanks for your help and others who have helped also

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours

2014-10-24 Thread 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 ev

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours

2014-10-20 Thread Don MacDougall
> I don't know what happened, but you must have inadvertently selected > some packages to install that you didn't intend to choose. There are no > texlive packages in a default installation. If I somehow did something like this, is there an easy way to undo it other than to delete everything a

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours (resending due to cygwin bounce)

2014-10-20 Thread Don MacDougall
Oops, what I meant to say was that it says "default" not "install" when I restart the installation. If I had it set to "install" the first time rather than "default", presumably it would still say that on restarting, I would imagine, though this is my first time in at least 10 years to try to inst

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours (resending due to cygwin bounce)

2014-10-20 Thread Don MacDougall
If I changed it away from "default" was accidental. I did look through the list of packages to be installed and it looked like quite a list and all binary packages were checked but not the source packages. But, since the first time I have looked when I restarted the installation and it said "defa

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours

2014-10-20 Thread Don MacDougall
ve it included can I take it out without breaking something that is too important to do without? When I restarted the install everything said "default" and I didn't change anything. Since it doesn't ever finish I don't see any log file, or indeed, ever a log directory.