[setup.exe crashes at cygrunsrv uninstall step] - SOLVED

[Marc]

Hello Dave,

thanks a lot for your suggestion; I saw indeed an error message from "zcat", and after I deleted /etc/setup/cygrunsrv.lst.gz I was able to finish the  installation with the original setup.exe.


Thanks again :-)
Marek 

----- Original Message ----
> From: Dave Korn <dave.korn@artimi.com>
> To: Marc <mojbordel@yahoo.co.uk>; cygwin@cygwin.com
> Sent: Wednesday, 2 April, 2008 2:53:21 PM
> Subject: RE: [setup.exe crashes at cygrunsrv uninstall step]
> 
> Marc wrote on 02 April 2008 13:39:
> 
> > > I have the following problem: When I try to run setup.exe (v.
> > > 2.573.2.2) to update my Cygwin installation, it crashes when
> > > uninstalling cygrunsrv package. This happens every time I execute it. I
> > > have tried: 
> 
> 
>   This is probably a known bug to do with corrupted package listing files
> which can be generated if a previous run was interrupted.  
> 
>   To check, run "zcat /etc/setup/cygrunsrv.lst.gz" in a bash shell; if it
> gives an error message, that confirms the problem.
> 
>   If that is the case, you could give a try to my fixed version of setup.exe
> 
> 
> http://rapidshare.com/files/98717404/setup.exe
> 
> or you could just delete the cygrunsrv.lst.gz manually and try again.
> 
>   If not, post again, we'll see what else might be going wrong.
> 
> 
>     cheers,
>       DaveK
> -- 
> Can't think of a witty .sigline today....
> 
> 




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