RE: cygwins setup hangs in installation

2006-01-17 Thread Brett Serkez
>> I DON'T have a hyperthreaded processor, and still see hangs with the >> current stable version of setup.exe (v. 2.510.2.2) It hangs >> indefinitely during update-info-dir.sh. My computer is a Pentium-M >> 1.4GHz, 760MB RAM. > >This is a known bug (which is known to have nothing to do with >hyp

RE: cygwins setup hangs in installation

2005-12-30 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005, Matt Clapp wrote: > I DON'T have a hyperthreaded processor, and still see hangs with the > current stable version of setup.exe (v. 2.510.2.2) It hangs > indefinitely during update-info-dir.sh. My computer is a Pentium-M > 1.4GHz, 760MB RAM. This is a known bug (which is kno

RE: cygwins setup hangs in installation

2005-12-30 Thread Matt Clapp
I have seen some posts to this mailing list talking about problems with cygwin setup.exe hanging during post-install scripts. They mainly blame problems with hyperthreaded processors. I DON'T have a hyperthreaded processor, and still see hangs with the current stable version of setup.exe (v. 2.51

Re: cygwins setup hangs in installation: Conflict with software FRITZ!DSL Startcenter

2005-10-24 Thread Norbert Harendt
Dave Korn artimi.com> writes: > Report a bug in FRITZ!DSL to avm.de and offer to test the patch for them? > Cygwin doesn't do anything in the least unusual with sockets, so if their > LSP breaks cygwin, it must be that cygwin is exposing a bug in their code. > > cheers, > DaveK Than

RE: cygwins setup hangs in installation: Conflict with software FRITZ!DSL Startcenter

2005-10-21 Thread Dave Korn
Norbert Harendt wrote: > I was astonished to find the entries > "C:\Programme\FRITZ!DSL\DLL", so i tried to run XWin on a computer in > our network which hasn't FRITZ!DSL-software, and ... it was running > without any error or hang !! > There a two computers with FRITZ!DSL-software on it, and

Re: cygwins setup hangs in installation: Conflict with software FRITZ!DSL Startcenter

2005-10-21 Thread Norbert Harendt
Norbert Harendt ib-eckerl.de> writes: > > Norbert Harendt ib-eckerl.de> writes: > > > > > Eric Blake byu.net> writes: > > > > > The point of postinstall scripts is that sh.exe runs something else. sh > > > will show up as no activity, because it is waiting on the child process, > > > which

Re: cygwins setup hangs in installation

2005-10-10 Thread Norbert Harendt
Eric Blake byu.net> writes: > The point of postinstall scripts is that sh.exe runs something else. sh > will show up as no activity, because it is waiting on the child process, > which IS doing something. But to my opinion in my special case some routine invoked during postinstall (or the in

Re: cygwins setup hangs in installation

2005-10-10 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Norbert Harendt on 10/10/2005 2:33 AM: > I downloaded the updated packages for install from Internet (with locally > keeping the files) using cygwins setup.exe under W2K prof. > All is running fine, packages are downloaded as they should

Re: cygwins setup hangs in installation

2005-10-10 Thread Norbert Harendt
Sarcar, Shourya C (GE Healthcare med.ge.com> writes: > > I have witnessed Cygwin hang or abort during installation on Hyperthreaded systems, specifically HP xw6200 > We worked the BIOS to disable Cygwin during install and later turned it on. > > > -- > Shourya Sarcar > Service Platform, Clinic