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Re: Latest cygwin setup.exe 2.78.2.9 crashes when run via VNC
- To: John Peacock <jpeacock at rowman dot com>
- Subject: Re: Latest cygwin setup.exe 2.78.2.9 crashes when run via VNC
- From: Chris Patti <cpatti at atg dot com>
- Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 13:19:25 -0400
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- References: <5.1.0.14.0.20011005121228.00a90928@pop.atg.com>
At 01:11 PM 10/5/2001 -0400, John Peacock wrote:
>Chris Patti wrote:
> >
> > Folks;
> >
> > We have no direct access to an NT server we need to install cygwin on.
> >
> > So we're using VNC (WinVNC) to remotely connect to that
> > server. Unfortunately the server isn't internet connected so I have all
> > the cygwin packages on a network drive.
> >
> > Every time I try running setup.exe and select "Install from Local
> > directory" setup.exe dies with an access violation dialog.
>
>Can you copy the files from the network share to an actual local drive?
>I doubt that anything VNC is doing should interfere with the Installer.
>Maybe there is something wrong with the network connection to the shared
>
>Which version of VNC are you using? You might try the TridiaVNC
>version, which has some new compression methods. Just for the purpose
>of mixing things up, it would be helpful to know whether other types
>of VNC display the same behavior.
Thanks for the help.
Turns out this is a previously reported problem, I got my distro from
mirrors.rcn.net (There's a bogus mingw there that's 154 bytes large. Oops.
That crashes setup)
I'm cleaning up the mess now :)
-Chris
(Someone may wish to let the rcn mirrors maintainer know)
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