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RE: Setup program is hanging
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: "Mark Sztainbok" <sz at myretsu dot com>,<cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 21:39:34 +1000
- Subject: RE: Setup program is hanging
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Sztainbok [mailto:sz@myretsu.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 11:12 AM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Setup program is hanging
>
>
> When I try to run the Cygwin setup program (version
> 2.194.2.26), it downloads setup.ini and then uses a lot of
> CPU time and displays a blank screen saying "This space is
> left intentionally blank" and I have to end up killing the program.
>
> I've also tried using the two snapshot versions (2.216 and
> 2.218.2.2) from http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots and in
> both cases I get a parse stack overflow error in setup.ini.
>
> I'm running Windows XP Professional.
>
> What is causing the setup program to fail as I'm findingiit
> frustrating that currently I can't update my Cygwin
> installation especially given that it was working about a
> week or two ago?
There was a latent bug in setup that recent package listing changes
triggered. The latest snapshot corrects this AFAICT.
Rob
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