RE: postinstall hang

2008-04-03 Thread Popper, Samuel (US SSA)
> Unfortunately, I can't easily uninstall those drivers, since they are > needed and used by other users of the machine. Is there a way to get > the paths to those drivers? I can probably get away with renaming the > files and rebooting long enough to tell if that fixes the problem. Never mind,

RE: postinstall hang

2008-04-03 Thread Popper, Samuel (US SSA)
> SERVICE_NAME: Sentinel > DISPLAY_NAME: Sentinel > SERVICE_NAME: SNTNLUSB > DISPLAY_NAME: Rainbow USB SuperPro > Security/rights management/license control thingy of some sort. It > could > easily have been coded under the mistaken assumption that hooking process > creation is a reasonable me

RE: postinstall hang

2008-04-01 Thread Popper, Samuel (US SSA)
> > Is there anything else that could contribute to BLODA? > > Yes, absolutely anything that hooks or injects into processes. Try > using > procexp to get a list of DLLs from the stuck bash processes, and let us > know > what's there. Here's my list of candidate BLODA .dll's from procexp: AcLu

RE: postinstall hang

2008-04-01 Thread Popper, Samuel (US SSA)
> | $ NUM=1; while true ; do echo $NUM; NUM=$(( $NUM + 1 )); done > | > | will run indefinitely, > > because it doesn't fork Correct; that's what I was trying to demonstrate. > | $ NUM=1; while true ; do echo `echo $NUM` ; NUM=$(( $NUM + 1 )); done > | > | Hangs pretty quickly, > > because it f

RE: postinstall hang

2008-03-31 Thread Popper, Samuel (US SSA)
> I've tried to install cygwin now about 7 or 8 times but the postinstall > always hangs somewhere, in different scripts at different places. I am still having this problem (as evidenced by previous messages). I've come up with a bash script "test case" that demonstrates the problem: $ NUM=1; whi

1.5.25-11: Process not exiting fully on Win2k3 server

2008-03-19 Thread Popper, Samuel (US SSA)
I'm continuing to debug the problem I reported earlier [1], where some executables called from within shell scripts don't fully terminate. This happens fairly often while sourcing the default /etc/profile, but not always, and not always in the same place. When this happens, if I use windows tools

RE: Cygwin doesn't install on Windows Server 2008 (x64).

2008-03-14 Thread Popper, Samuel (US SSA)
a new process. -Sam -Original Message- From: Krzysztof Ostrowski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 1:10 PM To: Popper, Samuel (US SSA); [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Cygwin doesn't install on Windows Server 2008 (x64). Hi, How did you manage to run something

RE: Cygwin doesn't install on Windows Server 2008 (x64).

2008-03-14 Thread Popper, Samuel (US SSA)
Hey, this sounds like my issue, except that I'm installing on Window Server 2003. I've completed setup by running the "hanging" shell scripts from another bash shell and then killing that process (which allows setup.exe to continue). Does 00ash.sh work if you run it from another shell? I'm also

RE: Cannot start bash prompts: processes intermittently don't die

2008-03-13 Thread Popper, Samuel (US SSA)
nal Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Korn Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 11:30 AM To: Cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: Cannot start bash prompts: processes intermittently don't die Popper, Samuel (US SSA) wrote on 13 March 2008 15:05: > I&#x

Cannot start bash prompts: processes intermittently don't die

2008-03-13 Thread Popper, Samuel (US SSA)
I'm running into a problem with a previously-working installation of cygwin on Windows 2003 server. I had installed a few extra packages, and updated all packages to the latest while attempting to set up Tinderbox. Now, I can no longer reliably open a cygwin bash prompt. The console window opens