Re: cygwin reinstall problem

[Christopher Faylor <cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

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On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 03:26:58PM -0500, Gaurav Jain wrote:
>I am facing the same problem on a Win2K machine.. I searched a lot but
>couldn't find any solution.. Could u plz help..
>
>Thanks,
>Gaurav.
>
>On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 09:49:12AM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 09:24:02PM -0400, Charles S. Wilson wrote:
>>> >"Fred T. Hamster" wrote:
>>> >>   is the official installation process now involving a bunch of
>registry
>>> >> edits before cygwin can be installed again, or is this setup program
>>> >> actually quite busted?
>>> >
>>> >It appears that the new setup program is not operating correctly for
>>> >SOME users.  This may be because setup itself is broken, or because the
>>> >affected users have some wierdness in their local machine.
>>> >
>>> >In my case, I just used the new setup.exe to update a pre-existing
>>> >install (that is, I used it to install the most recent inetutils,
>>> >openssh, and python packages -- I already had older versions of those
>>> >packages installed).
>>> >
>>> >It worked flawlessly.
>>>
>>> Prediction:  It will work flawlessly for every person who is remotely
>>> capable of debugging it.
>>>
>>> The problems with weird directories being created sounds a lot like
>>> random memory corruption.  Wish I could reproduce it.
>>>
>>> Maybe I should try building it with electric fence or something.
>>>
>>
>>Don't you find it strange that the people that are having problems are
>>the ones that are deleting their previous installation?  The workaround
>>to this problem is don't delete your current installation, just use
>>setup with the current installation.
>
>Possibly, but I tried deleting my current installation and updated with
>no problem.
>
>I did eventually duplicate the problem on another machine.  It was due
>to the use of a freed memory pointer.
>
>It should be fixed now, so we can stop talking about this.
>
>If it is not fixed, lets start a email thread.  This one should be
>dead already.
>
>cgf

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