Re: New cygwin install hanging on postinstall

2016-01-22 Thread Mark Geisert
KARR, DAVID writes: > Ok. I understand the basic procedure for uninstalling Cygwin, but what's the best way to reset the > installer to the "base" install? Doing a base install just means running setup (the appropriate setup*.exe for your platform) and clicking Next all the way through, taking

Re: New cygwin install hanging on postinstall

2016-01-22 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, KARR, DAVID! > Ok. I understand the basic procedure for uninstalling Cygwin, but what's > the best way to reset the installer to the "base" install? No need to "uninstall". Just nuke it from the orbit. Since this is a new installation, you are (presumable) have nothing to lose. P.S.

RE: New cygwin install hanging on postinstall

2016-01-22 Thread KARR, DAVID
> -Original Message- > From: Andrey Repin [mailto:anrdae...@yandex.ru] > Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2016 11:35 PM > To: KARR, DAVID; cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: New cygwin install hanging on postinstall > > Greetings, KARR, DAVID! > > >> > I was

Re: New cygwin install hanging on postinstall

2016-01-21 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, KARR, DAVID! >> > I was installing cygwin for the first time on a Win7-32bit box. > It has 4g RAM. Checking "Resource Monitor" while the install is running, > there is 750MB "available". How much memory is "available" is not an indication for a 32-bit OS. You simply can not allocate

Re: New cygwin install hanging on postinstall

2016-01-21 Thread David Stacey
On 21/01/16 21:17, KARR, DAVID wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Achim Gratz Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2016 12:10 PM To: cygwin cygwin.com Subject: Re: New cygwin install hanging on postinstall KARR, DAVID writes

RE: New cygwin install hanging on postinstall

2016-01-21 Thread KARR, DAVID
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On > Behalf Of Achim Gratz > Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2016 12:10 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: New cygwin install hanging on postinstall > > KARR, DAVID writes: >

Re: New cygwin install hanging on postinstall

2016-01-21 Thread Achim Gratz
KARR, DAVID writes: > While it's sitting here, I dumped out "/var/log/setup.log.full". Here is the > end of the file: > > The following DLLs couldn't be rebased because they were in use: > /usr/bin/cygssp-0.dll > /usr/bin/cygperl5_22.dll > /usr/bin/cyggcc_s-1.dll > /usr/b

Re: New cygwin install hanging on postinstall

2016-01-21 Thread Ken Brown
On 1/21/2016 12:40 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote: -Original Message- On 20 January 2016 at 17:06, KARR, DAVID wrote: I was installing cygwin for the first time on a Win7-32bit box. It is hanging in postinstall, with "0/Perpetual" and "/etc/postinstall/0p_texlive_prep.dash. I've tried this twi

Re: New cygwin install hanging on postinstall

2016-01-21 Thread Ken Brown
On 1/21/2016 3:02 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: Ken Brown cornell.edu> writes: Check setup.log.full. If that doesn't help, try running the script manually to see what happens (most likely a fork failure requiring a full rebase). Well, if it's really a fresh install, the full rebase just has happene

RE: New cygwin install hanging on postinstall

2016-01-21 Thread KARR, DAVID
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On > Behalf Of Stephen John Smoogen > Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2016 4:19 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: New cygwin install hanging on postinstall > > On 20 Jan

Re: New cygwin install hanging on postinstall

2016-01-21 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown cornell.edu> writes: > Check setup.log.full. If that doesn't help, try running the script > manually to see what happens (most likely a fork failure requiring a > full rebase). Well, if it's really a fresh install, the full rebase just has happened, so if there's still a fork problem

Re: New cygwin install hanging on postinstall

2016-01-20 Thread Ken Brown
On 1/20/2016 7:06 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote: I was installing cygwin for the first time on a Win7-32bit box. It is hanging in postinstall, with "0/Perpetual" and "/etc/postinstall/0p_texlive_prep.dash. I've tried this twice now, and it hangs effectively forever on this step (waited 15-20 minutes

Re: New cygwin install hanging on postinstall

2016-01-20 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 20 January 2016 at 17:06, KARR, DAVID wrote: > I was installing cygwin for the first time on a Win7-32bit box. It is > hanging in postinstall, with "0/Perpetual" and > "/etc/postinstall/0p_texlive_prep.dash. I've tried this twice now, and it > hangs effectively forever on this step (waited

New cygwin install hanging on postinstall

2016-01-20 Thread KARR, DAVID
I was installing cygwin for the first time on a Win7-32bit box. It is hanging in postinstall, with "0/Perpetual" and "/etc/postinstall/0p_texlive_prep.dash. I've tried this twice now, and it hangs effectively forever on this step (waited 15-20 minutes each time). What other information could