'Fatal Error' from Setup.exe (postgres)

Reini Urban rurban@x-ray.at
Mon Jul 31 07:39:00 GMT 2006


Igor Peshansky schrieb:
> On Sun, 30 Jul 2006, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
> 
>> I want to flag the following problem.
>>
>> With the current setup.ini (20060730 15:00, size 569848) I have the
>> following 'Fatal error' from Setup.exe:
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------
>> Fatal error: Uncaught Exception
>> Thread: Dialogproc
>> Type: 9Exception
>> Message: Package validation failure for
>>
>> file://C:\cygwin\home\angelo\.....\cygwin/release/postgresql/postgresql-client/postgresql-client-8.0.7-1.tar.bz2
>>
>> AppErrNo:1
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------
>>
>> I am using setup.exe 2.510.2.2 (i.e. the current setup.exe).

Oh my, now I see.
I've tested it with setup 2.529, that's why it didn't crash for me.

>> I am using the same file of setup.exe since it was released whithout
>> problems until today.
> 
> This is due to a 0-length file used for an empty package.  As far as I
> know, this has already been fixed on sourceware.org, and should propagate
> to the mirrors soon.  You might want to go and physically delete the
> offending file from your system, as well as clear the IE cache, to pick up
> the fixed version.

Yes, it's already fixed by cgf and should be on the mirrors.

> FWIW, a newer setup snapshot (see <http://cygwin.com/setup/snapshots/>)
> did not crash in this situation.
-- 
Reini Urban

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