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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 11:26:40AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >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".
>
> And that theory would have been disproven by the "wipe out your
> download area" step.
Not really. You do have a "download some files" step. Perhaps Dave
should've said "a *perceived* discrepancy", however, i.e., a genuine bug
in setup.
Igor
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