Stuck trying to reinstall Emacs 23.0.92 and setup dying each time

[Ken Brown]

On 7/1/2009 12:20 PM, KARR, DAVID (ATTCINW) wrote:
> I had set up Cygwin yesterday with the experimental Emacs 23.0.92.  I
> had done other updates after that, forgetting the fact that since I'm
> using an experimental package, I have to set the Emacs-related pages to
> "Keep".  I'm now in a state where I have the 23.0.92 executable, but
> with /usr/share/emacs/21.2.  So, now I'm trying to run setup again to
> reinstall 23.0.92, or uninstall it, or anything.  No matter what I do,
> setup dies hard, requiring a forced kill from task manager.
> 
> What can I do to clean up from this situation?

Does http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2008-04/msg00065.html help?  The 
bug discussed there was supposed to have been fixed 
(http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2008-08/msg00128.html), but it wouldn't 
hurt to see if that's the problem.

Ken

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