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RE: setup.exe problem
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: "Ton van Overbeek" <tvoverbe at cistron dot nl>,<cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 23:35:05 +1100
- Subject: RE: setup.exe problem
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ton van Overbeek [mailto:tvoverbe@cistron.nl]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 8:32 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com; cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: setup.exe problem
>
>
> Jonas Eriksson wrote:
> > When I try to install Cygwin with the latest setup.exe
> (2.194.2.21) it
> > hangs after I have selected a mirror server to download
> from. It manages
> > to download setup.ini but them immediately comes up with
> the message
> > "This space intentionally left blank" and continues to eat
> up all cpu
> > cycles. I have tried using .14, .12 and .9 which I found in
> > cygwin.com/setup-snapshots, but all of these complained
> about not beeing
> > the latest version as stated in setup.ini and then hanging
> like the .21.
> > My conclusion is that setup.exe does not like my win2000
> system. Any ideas?
>
> Some additional information which may be related to this.
> When running a self compiled setup.exe under gdb (on W98SE)
> at this point (first appearance of chooser) a segment
> violation is generated. Just continuing in gdb under W98SE
> works (the chooser appears and is functional), but I guess
> under Win2K/NT/XP this segment violation creates havoc. The
> segment violation occurs in PickView every time you change
> view (Full/Category/Partial).
Do you have similar screen-altering software installed as Jonas did?
I don't see any segment violations under gdb, or I'd check in fixes :}.
If you can track this down, that would be great.
Cheers,
Rob