So I have used Cygwin on and off for the past few years and I've installed it a handful of times. However, I've never experienced the install hanging during the install process. When this happens, the install literally freezes and doesn't budge a "bit." I've read that this is a somewhat common problem but like I said, I've never come across it before. Here's a play-by-play of what I'm doing and where it hangs on me. Download the Setup-x86.exe from http://cygwin.com/install.html Install from Internet Use "C:\cygwin" as the default root directory for all users. Use "C:\Users\Austin\Downloads" as the default local package directory Direct Installation Use http://mirrors.kernel.org per this question . I don't specify any additional items for the install (I thought it would best to keep it as simple as possible after running into this problem multiple times.) I don't change any of the "Resolving Dependencies" (whatever those are) ...and everything goes great until a certain package get's tripped up and causes the install to hang. This is almost always a different package at a different point in the install. In this instance, it was texinfo-5.2-1.tar.xz and the install was at 94%! So close!!! So what I'm looking for is how do I help the installer continue from this point? What do I need to do to go in cygwin and give it the extra motivation it needs to finish the job. Work around to the problem above: So after fiddling with the install a little more, I discovered that if you close the frozen install, and re-execute the setup file, it forces the install past the point where it got snagged the previous time. For example, after canceling the snagged install at 94% (mentioned above), I ran the setup file again and got to 95% before the install snagged again. I repeated this setup about 5 times before successfully installing cygwin. Like I said, this is just a work around and may be the best/only solution.

Reputation: 3138

Cygwin setup.exe hangs during install Windows 8? How should I continue?

So I have used Cygwin on and off for the past few years and I've installed it a handful of times. However, I've never experienced the install hanging during the install process. When this happens, the install literally freezes and doesn't budge a "bit." I've read that this is a somewhat common problem but like I said, I've never come across it before.

Here's a play-by-play of what I'm doing and where it hangs on me.

Download the Setup-x86.exe from http://cygwin.com/install.html
Install from Internet
Use "C:\cygwin" as the default root directory for all users.
Use "C:\Users\Austin\Downloads" as the default local package directory
Direct Installation
Use http://mirrors.kernel.org per this question.
I don't specify any additional items for the install (I thought it would best to keep it as simple as possible after running into this problem multiple times.)
I don't change any of the "Resolving Dependencies" (whatever those are)
...and everything goes great until a certain package get's tripped up and causes the install to hang. This is almost always a different package at a different point in the install. In this instance, it was texinfo-5.2-1.tar.xz and the install was at 94%! So close!!!

So what I'm looking for is how do I help the installer continue from this point? What do I need to do to go in cygwin and give it the extra motivation it needs to finish the job.

Work around to the problem above:

So after fiddling with the install a little more, I discovered that if you close the frozen install, and re-execute the setup file, it forces the install past the point where it got snagged the previous time. For example, after canceling the snagged install at 94% (mentioned above), I ran the setup file again and got to 95% before the install snagged again. I repeated this setup about 5 times before successfully installing cygwin.

Like I said, this is just a work around and may be the best/only solution.

Upvotes: 15

Answers (7)

user3437245

Reputation: 347

Look out for the BLODA (Big List Of Dodgy Apps) in the Cygwin FAQ, and uninstall:

BLODA - A list of applications that interfere with the normal working of Cygwin by intrusively injecting themselves in the system call chain

(Description taken from the Cygwin acronyms list)

Upvotes: 0

nwinder

Reputation: 1

I was able to get this to work - mine was just stuck on 0/Perpetual with no progress bar. It was Windows defender, I added my cygwin folder (C:\cygwin64) into the exceptions for windows defender and progress started immediately.

Upvotes: 0