1.5.24: setup.exe segfault

Igor Peshansky pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu
Sun Apr 8 19:11:00 GMT 2007


On Sun, 8 Apr 2007, Greg Chicares wrote:

> On 2007-4-8 14:45 UTC, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> > On Sun, 8 Apr 2007, Greg Chicares wrote:
> >
> >> I've run setup.exe numerous times this morning, and it segfaulted
> >> only once. I tried again, but couldn't reproduce the problem.
> [...]
> > It doesn't look like you're running the latest snapshot of setup -- please
> > try that (from <http://cygwin.com/setup/snapshots/>).
> [...]
> > If you can reproduce the crash with the latest snapshot, we could get a
> > more accurate diagnosis with addr2line.
>
> I followed the link you gave, and downloaded this file:
>   http://cygwin.com/setup/snapshots/setup-2.562.exe
> It did not crash. It let me retrieve the package I wanted, then
> successfully updated that package:
>
> /cygdrive/c/cygwin-cache[0]$cygcheck -s -v -r |grep mingw-runtime
> mingw-runtime        3.11-1
> /cygdrive/c/cygwin-cache[0]$./setup-2.562.exe
> /cygdrive/c/cygwin-cache[0]$cygcheck -s -v -r |grep mingw-runtime
> mingw-runtime        3.12-4
>
> Let me point out two small things:
>
> (1) The initial screen says "Copyright 2000-2006"; should it say
> 2007 instead of 2006?

Yep.  Thanks.

> (2) When I did "Download Without Installing" as a separate step to
> fetch this package, setup-2.562.exe terminated without showing the
>   Cygwin Setup
>   Download Complete
>   OK
> messagebox I've grown accustomed to seeing. Is the lack of that
> messagebox a new feature? I mistook it for an abend; but, running
> it under gdb, everything looked okay even though the messagebox
> did not appear:
>
> /cygdrive/c/cygwin-cache[0]$gdb ./setup-2.562.exe
> GNU gdb 6.5.50.20060706-cvs (cygwin-special)
> [big snip]
> warning: .ini setup_version is 2.510.2.2, our setup_version is 2.562
> warning: LOG: 2 note: Download Complete
> warning: LOG: 2 Ending cygwin install
>
> Program exited normally.
> (gdb) q

Ah, the message box was indeed removed, and the final message was folded
into the screen that offered to create the desktop and start menu
shortcuts.  However, what I missed was the fact that this screen is not
shown in download-only mode.  Thanks for the report -- I'll fix this.
	Igor
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