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

[Christopher Faylor]

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.

cgf