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

[Christopher Faylor]

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.

cgf