Setup.exe hangs forever...

[Max Bowsher]

Gabriel wrote:
> Even more details:
>
> I noticed that if I install Cygwin with the default packages everything 
> works
> fine. But if I do an installation of Cygwin, from scratch (new system, new
> Windows XP SP2) and try to install _everything_ by clicking on "Default" 
> and
> changing it to "Install" then setup.exe hangs forever.
>
> This means that if I install Cygwin with the defaults _and then_ I install 
> the
> complete package set then it works fine but if I try to install 
> _everything_
> from scratch it hangs.
>
> Has anybody found this problem? Any suggestions?

I've noted this in the setup.exe bugtracker:
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=490

I will attempt to investigate when I have a second machine available to me.
(That means mid-December)

Max.


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