xorg installation fails, 99% complete only

[bruno patin]

Christopher Faylor wrote:

>On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 10:50:58PM +0100, bruno patin wrote:
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>>>Is there some reason why you won't just run cygcheck.exe while setup is
>>>hung?  Have you tried it?  AFAIK, cygcheck should be operational by the
>>>time setup has gotten to installing X.  It really has to be operational
>>>since cygcheck.exe comes along with the Cygwin DLL.
>>>
>>>Also, you could even run, oh I don't know, it's just a pretty drastic
>>>suggestion, but you *could* run "ps -ef".
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>In fact I did not use ps -ef (and cygcheck by the the way) for two
>>reasons: 1/ I was following what happened with the windows task manager
>>tool (where I followed the memory consumption) 2/ At this step of the
>>install, you do not have the .bat or .sh command
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>Just run the programs directly from the cygwin directory:
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>c:\cygwin\bin\cygcheck -r -s -v > blah1
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>c:\cygwin\bin\ps -ef > blah2
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>Also, I believe that Gerrit suggested sending the contents of the setup
>log files.
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>>I was wondering, if I launch setup.exe from my first installed cygwin on 
>>another directory using strace, will there be interactions between the 
>>old and new install ? Is it possible to have two completely different 
>>cywin install ? If yes I would know what is the loop in the program.
>>
>>yes or no ?
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>strace is for cygwin programs.  setup.exe is not a cygwin program.  It
>can't be.  Requiring cygwin1.dll to install cygwin1.dll would never work.
>
>I appreciate that you're trying to think of solutions here but there
>have already been a couple of suggestions that no one seems to have
>bothered to follow through on.   Why not just humor us and provide the
>debugging info that we're asking for?
>
>cgf
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I have to cut my mail in two piece due to the size limit of the mailing list

Ok there the status
As already stated a loop somewhere that consume memory with time when 
installing /usr/X11R6/share/doc/Cygwin/xorg-x11-fscl-6.8.1.README
the joined files:
1 cygcheck.txt (this mail)
2 not the result of ps -ef  but ps -aflW as for the the first the only 
process seen is ps -ef itself (this mail)
3 the setup.log file

on cancellation, the error (already stated ) "cannot open log file 
c:\cygwin/var/log/setup.log for writing". Only little detail, the mixed 
combination of / and \ of the path in the error message.

To go further would mean to have a windows debugger and that I do not. 
Is it necessary ? I can have one by my work.

Hope that helps
BPatin


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