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Re: Serious Installation problems - possible workround but rapid fix required.


John Macallister wrote:
I've installed Cygwin a few times before and I was fairly confident of
installing version 1.5.12 but what a disaster this distribution is! I
don't want anyone in particular to feel they're the object of criticism
but this release may put off many users from trying to use Cygwin at all
because it's just not possible to install it without a great deal of
trouble with the current distribution kit. I would suggest a rapid
re-release is needed (I'm willing to field test it for you as far as the
installation procedure is concerned) before too many people discover the
problem!

You misunderstand the nature of the problem.


It is highly improbable that the issue you describe has anything to do with the cygwin DLL itself, and it has been reported before the 1.5.12 release anyway.

I've tried downloading and/or installing directly from 16 different
download sites just in case there was a problem mirroring. Some sites
failed with installation incomplete (consistently e.g. mirror.ac.uk) but
most ended up in some sort of endless shell loop at 90+% of the way
through with virtual memory increasing endlessly: even setting a
pagefile size of 2.5GB was not enough!

Here's what I did.
 (1) Download from rcn.net
       (This just happens to be the one that worked but all the
successful downloads looked identical).
 (2) Install from local disk using "Install" for everything.
       This produced some "missing database" errors and didn't complete
properly. I just cancelled the "Try again?" request.

Your abbreviation of the error message is rather unhelpful. I have no idea what that error is.


Was this a clean install of Cygwin, or were you updating an existing install?


Max.



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