Latest setup.exe

Latest setup.exe

[Joseph I. Davida]

The latest setup.exe dies with the following
error banner titled: Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Error

			Runtime Error
			Program: C:\download\cygwin\setup.exe

			Abnormal Program termination

This happens after about 1% of the packages have been installed.
Also, there appears to be a huge allocation of mem that Win2K
increased virtual space to 2 gig and the machine slows down
so much as to be almost uselesss during the setup!


Regards,

Joe

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Re: Latest setup.exe

[Max Bowsher]

Joseph I. Davida <jd108@pacbell.net> wrote:

> The latest setup.exe dies with the following

Latest release (2.249.2.5) or latest beta (2.303) ?

> error banner titled: Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Error
> 
> Runtime Error
> Program: C:\download\cygwin\setup.exe
> 
> Abnormal Program termination
> 
> This happens after about 1% of the packages have been installed.
> Also, there appears to be a huge allocation of mem that Win2K
> increased virtual space to 2 gig and the machine slows down
> so much as to be almost uselesss during the setup!

Max.

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Re: Latest setup.exe

[Max Bowsher]

Please keep replies on list!

Joseph I. Davida <jd108@pacbell.net> wrote:

> It appears that this setup.exe is depleting the VM pool.
> There is either a bad memory leak problem, or there
> is a boundless recursion in the calls. I suspect the
> it is a memory leak problem.
> The machine has 512M sdram and a 40 gig HD, of which
> a max of 2048M is used for paging. Yet the setup.exe
> alone eats up all the VM pool!.
> 
> Is there an older version of it that I can try?

Try the latest beta at http://cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/

Max.


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Re: Latest setup.exe

[Joseph I. Davida]

I tried the beta version Max suggested and it also
exhibits the same behaviour on my win2k laptop;
i.e. sucks up huge mem (depletes VM), and yet after
more than 1 hour of running, it still says 1% of
base-files 1.1-1 is installed. The "total" progress
meter shows only about a sliver of "progress" :)

Am running win2K with latest updates (service pack 3).

Also, I have been updating my cygwin installation for
over a year now, and this is the first time I have
encountered this problem.

Joe

Max Bowsher wrote:
> 
> Please keep replies on list!
> 
> Joseph I. Davida <jd108@pacbell.net> wrote:
> 
> > It appears that this setup.exe is depleting the VM pool.
> > There is either a bad memory leak problem, or there
> > is a boundless recursion in the calls. I suspect the
> > it is a memory leak problem.
> > The machine has 512M sdram and a 40 gig HD, of which
> > a max of 2048M is used for paging. Yet the setup.exe
> > alone eats up all the VM pool!.
> >
> > Is there an older version of it that I can try?
> 
> Try the latest beta at http://cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/
> 
> Max.

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Re: Latest setup.exe

[Joseph Davida]

I got around the problem by removing the
old C:\cygwin (actually by renaming it
to cygwin.old) and restarting the setup.exe.

So it appears current setup.exe will cause this
problem on Win2K if it installs on top of an 
exsisting installation.

Cheers,
Joe


Joseph Davida wrote:
>I tried the beta version Max suggested and it also
>exhibits the same behaviour on my win2k laptop;
>i.e. sucks up huge mem (depletes VM), and yet after
>more than 1 hour of running, it still says 1% of
>base-files 1.1-1 is installed. The "total" progress
>meter shows only about a sliver of "progress" :)
>
>Am running win2K with latest updates (service pack
3).
>
>Also, I have been updating my cygwin installation for
>over a year now, and this is the first time I have
>encountered this problem.
>
>Joe
>
>Max Bowsher wrote:
>> 
>> Please keep replies on list!
>> 
>> Joseph I. Davida <jd108@pacbell.net> wrote:
>> 
>> > It appears that this setup.exe is depleting the
VM pool.
>> > There is either a bad memory leak problem, or
there
>> > is a boundless recursion in the calls. I suspect
the
>> > it is a memory leak problem.
>> > The machine has 512M sdram and a 40 gig HD, of
which
>> > a max of 2048M is used for paging. Yet the
setup.exe
>> > alone eats up all the VM pool!.
>> >
>> > Is there an older version of it that I can try?
>> 
>> Try the latest beta at
>http://cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/
>> 
>> Max.

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Re: Latest setup.exe

[Robert Collins]

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On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 03:56, Joseph Davida wrote:
> I got around the problem by removing the
> old C:\cygwin (actually by renaming it
> to cygwin.old) and restarting the setup.exe.
> 
> So it appears current setup.exe will cause this
> problem on Win2K if it installs on top of an 
> exsisting installation.

Works for me.

I'll WAG that your 'local package dir' is c:\cygwin.

Thats not a supported configuration.

Rob
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Re: Latest setup.exe

[Joseph Davida]

Nop! package dir is 
c:\downloads\cygwin\packages.

Joe

--- Robert Collins <rbcollins@cygwin.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 03:56, Joseph Davida wrote:
> > I got around the problem by removing the
> > old C:\cygwin (actually by renaming it
> > to cygwin.old) and restarting the setup.exe.
> > 
> > So it appears current setup.exe will cause this
> > problem on Win2K if it installs on top of an 
> > exsisting installation.
> 
> Works for me.
> 
> I'll WAG that your 'local package dir' is c:\cygwin.
> 
> Thats not a supported configuration.
> 
> Rob
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