Re: Problem uninstalling XFree86-bin-icons

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Chris,

Well, what I can see is that setup.exe is leaving dead bash and sh 
processes around if you cancel this.  The post-install and pre-remove 
scripts both work fine if run from a bash prompt.

I changed /etc/postinstall/XFree86-bin-icons.sh to pass '-x' to sh and 
looked at the log file in /var/log/, which I have been asked to do.  It 
contained exactly the following:

+ /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86-bin-icons.sh


/etc/postinstall/XFree86-bin-icons.sh isn't all that complex either (the 
following differs from the official package, I have stripped the comment 
line, just in case it was causing a problem):

#!/bin/sh -x

/usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86-bin-icons.sh


Setup still borked on the above script.  Note that 
/usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86-bin-icons.sh does have execute permissions and 
/var/log/setup.log.full.


I have tried changing the postinstall script to the following, just in 
case there was some sort of side-effect of running our bash script from 
an sh-launched bash shell (not likely, but wanted to rule it out):

#!/bin/bash -x

bash -c /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86-bin-icons.sh


I guess the next step is that I am going to add some print-outs to 
/usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86-bin-icons.sh so that I can figure out if it is 
looping endlessly or trying to return.

Harold

Chris January wrote:
> Setup (2.415) hangs when uninstalling XFree86-bin-icons. What can I do to
> find out why?
>
> Chris
>
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