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Re: uncaught exceptions in setup
- From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna at efn dot org>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 06:23:17 -0700
- Subject: Re: uncaught exceptions in setup
- References: <20050911121622.GA4520@efn.org>
On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 05:16:22AM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
> I've downloaded the new setup (2.510.2.2) and am trying to run it and
> getting uncaught exceptions like:
>
> Fatal Error: Uncaught Exception
> Thread: DialogProc
> Type: 9Exception
> Message: Package validation failure for
> file://C:\setup\cygwin/http%3a%2f%2fmirrors.rcn.net%2fpub%2fsourceware%2fcygwin/release/x11/fontconfig/libfontconfig-devel/libfontconfig-devel-2.2.2-1.tar.bz2
> AppErrNo: 1
>
> I would really prefer not to have to rename things I've already downloaded
> and installed just to download new stuff.
I've worked my way through a bunch of these before giving up. It's
particularly annoying to get the message for tarballs that are now
[prev] when I have [curr] installed.
Since the tarballs are in fact intact, I'm suspecting that updating
of existing files has been a common practice.