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Re: Anyone looking at the 'setup.exe' 2.510.2.1 crashing problem?


On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> 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.

Looks like Dave mis-spoke -- he said "package database", but he seems to
have been talking about the "local package cache".

At the risk of restating the obvious, this is probably a bug in the
package verification code, since a fresh download should not have
inconsistent files.
	Igor
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