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Re: Anyone looking at the 'setup.exe' 2.510.2.1 crashing problem?
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 10:53:55AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>> The problem with setup.exe crashing is pretty easy to duplicate.
>>
>> - Wipe out your download area
>>
>> - run setup.exe
>>
>> o Choose "Download without installing"
>> o download some files
>> o exit
>>
>> - rerun setup.exe
>>
>> o Choose "Install from local directory"
>> o Crashes after "Parsing ini file"
>
><http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2005-09/msg00099.html>.
Yes, I saw that.
This doesn't seem to be a problem with the package database. You can
add a "umount --remove-all-mounts" to the above, choose a different root
during installation and still get the same result.
cgf