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

[Martin.Fitzpatrick]

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[Ken Brown-6]

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[ASSI]

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[steverino2]

This problem occurs on a fast laptop upgrade from prior cygwin install.

I've been a user and beneficiary of cygwin for years, so please keep it coming.
But in this case the default for publishing/texlive/anything should be SKIP
the install is insanely long and I too thought at first the install was hang.
honestly I don't know anyone who uses texlive but thats just because
we use cygwin for command line builds with make/gcc

please consider fixing this soon so others don't accidentally stumble across this problem

[toddcs]

I, too, am now experiencing this texlive problem during Cygwin update, in which I am trying to install Asymptote for the first time. I am on a late-model laptop with up-to-date anti-virus software. I do not experience such extreme bottlenecks at all in other contexts.  I should add that as a long-time Unix/Linux developer, I am also an avid Cygwin user of many years, and I find the platform to be of consistently high quality and a joy to use.  I hope this issue can be resolved soon.

[Ken Brown-6]

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[jeremycraven]

I am just reinstalling cygwin on a fresh install of XP on a rather old laptop with Avast as virus software.

It is absolutely crawling at the texlive postinstallation stage - stuck showing 24-25% for at least half an hour now. I was about to give up but googled "cygwin install hangs texlive-collection" and was surprised to actually hit something so will leave it to run over night.

Previous installs went a lot lot quicker.

There is no /var/log/setup.log etc that I can see yet ( only an empty file setup.log.postinstallXa03208 in C:\cygwin\var\log).

I can confirm kpsewhich.exe is taking most of the CPU.

Jeremy

[marco atzeri-4]

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[Ken Brown-6]

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[jeremycraven]

I did not change anything in the "Publishing" section, so all were at default, unless one of my other choices chnaged them due to dependencies (see end of this post as well). Elsewhere as far as I remember I added all of X11, python, and editors, rxvt , tcsh shell, and Imagemagick. Of those the only mildly suspicious one is the tex wysiwyg editor.

I seem to have ended up with your "standard" install (according to the texlive advice that you pointed me to) when I look at the things in publishing marked "KEEP" and referring to "texlive" (e.g. have the ...latexrecommended one). (Is there any other way to know what non standard items one chose in the future?).

The key timings in the full log file are:
13:23 started whole process
15:00 postinstall started
15:12-15:56 texlive things
16:08-16:56 more texlive things
17:00 finished

so I make it 90 mins out of 210 mins were texlive.

Maybe that is as it should be, but is this what would happen if I had not touched the "default" install settings?

I think like others, I nearly lost faith that my computer was still working - it was only because I knew cygwin was so valuable to me that I persevered. In a first time try I might well have given up.

(The upside of this is I can try and see if this latex install copes on a file someone sent me where my ubuntu one failed!)

I notice the following lines near the top of the log files:

2013/02/05 13:27:23 Adding required dependency texlive: Selecting version 20120628-1 for installation.
2013/02/05 13:27:23 Adding required dependency texlive-collection-basic: Selecting version 20120628-2 for installation.
2013/02/05 13:27:23 Adding required dependency texlive-collection-documentation-base: Selecting version 20120628-1 for installation.
2013/02/05 13:27:23 Adding required dependency texlive-collection-fontsextra: Selecting version 20120628-1 for installation.
2013/02/05 13:27:23 Adding required dependency texlive-collection-fontsrecommended: Selecting version 20120628-1 for installation.
2013/02/05 13:27:23 Adding required dependency texlive-collection-fontutils: Selecting version 20120628-1 for installation.
2013/02/05 13:27:23 Adding required dependency texlive-collection-genericrecommended: Selecting version 20120628-1 for installation.
2013/02/05 13:27:23 Adding required dependency texlive-collection-htmlxml: Selecting version 20120628-1 for installation.
2013/02/05 13:27:23 Adding required dependency texlive-collection-latex: Selecting version 20120628-1 for installation.
2013/02/05 13:27:23 Adding required dependency texlive-collection-latexextra: Selecting version 20120628-1 for installation.
2013/02/05 13:27:23 Adding required dependency texlive-collection-latexrecommended: Selecting version 20120628-1 for installation.
2013/02/05 13:27:23 Adding required dependency texlive-collection-pictures: Selecting version 20120628-1 for installation.
2013/02/05 13:27:23 Adding required dependency texlive-collection-science: Selecting version 20120628-1 for installation.
2013/02/05 13:27:23 Adding required dependency texlive-collection-texinfo: Selecting version 20120628-1 for installation.

I don't know if that indicates extra dependencies beyond the default, and if so I wonder what triggered them.

I can send you the log files if you suggest where best to send them.

Cheers

Jeremy




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[Ken Brown-6]

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[leftwing]

I'm experiencing this problem right now, about 2 years after earlier discussion. I didn't choose this package - it was installed as a dependency for curl development. The post install processes have been running for hours and hours ...

[Ken Brown-6]

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[Don MacDougall]

I downloaded Setup.exe version 2.850 (32 bit) on Oct 18, 2014 and used it to install cygwin from scratch on an Asus Eee notebook with Atom N455 cpu.  I tried to install only the default packages but it seems like that took about 8 hours to download overnight.  The install went okay until it came to the /etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-basic.sh which seemed to hang for at least 12 hours.  Thinking it was hung I canceled the install, but then I found this longish thread going back several years, so I restarted the install and let it run for at least 24 hours and see no more happening.  It sits the whole time on this script.  The "Total:" line shows 99% done and the "Package:" line shows zero progress the whole time.

Is there a way to install Cygwin without installing this package, which seems to have been included in the default selection?

Now that I seem to have 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.

Thank you,
Don MacDougall

[Ken Brown-6]

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[Ken Brown-6]

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[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 "default" and I didn't change it.  If it was accidentally changed the first time, would it then say "all" when I restart the installation?  If so, then I know it says "default" when  I restarted it.

Don