Setup hangs repetedly

[Max Bowsher]

Martin Magnusson wrote:
> I have used Cygwin for a few months now. I'm trying to reinstall it
> with a couple of extra packages, but I've run into serious trouble.
>
> Downloading seems to work fine, but while installing setup just hangs,
> randomly (with no error message). When looking at setup.log I see a
> lot of calls to compress_bz::error. Is that normal?

Yes. The compress_bz class lacks any error handling. That log message is
basically a loud fixme.

Please describe exactly where setup hangs.
Does it hang if you download only first, and then re-run setup, choosing
"install from local directory"?


Max.


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