Setup 2.249.2.3 on Win2k hangs while uninstalling packages
Robert Collins
robert.collins@syncretize.net
Tue Jun 18 08:19:00 GMT 2002
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Corey Hershhorn
> Sent: Tuesday, 18 June 2002 10:38 PM
> Pavel & Robert,
>
> I have been able to reproduce a very similar issue on Windows
> 2000 SP2.
Ouch. I'm very short on time, so I hope Pavel can pinpoint this. He's
very good at that though, so I'm not worried :].
> 3) Canceling setup.exe when it is in the process of
> installing/uninstalling
> yields the following error message about half the time: "setup.exe -
> Application Error, The instruction at '0x0042a3de referenced memory at
> 0x00000000.' The memory could not be 'read'." A similar
> message also appears
> if setup.exe runs out of memory during its initial growth
> (i.e., if other
> apps are running and I don't have much available memory to
> start with.)
Is this in combination with your '2', or as a separate but possibly
overlapping issue?
> I could not help but notice that a
> couple of my existing packages show up as "0.0" but I wasn't
> sure what to
> make of that.
0.0 means that the package was installed without version information, as
happened in the very early days of setup.
Rob
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