Crash during setup

Crash during setup

[Sebastian Schuberth]

Hi there,

i'm trying to run Cygwin setup 2.218.2.9 on Win2k but it always crashes 
at the same point: After selecting the mirror and downloading setup.ini 
a page saying "This space intentionally left blank" appears and the 
program does not respond to input anymore. The only way to close it is 
to kill the task. Any hints how to avoid this?

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Re: Crash during setup

[Randall R Schulz]

Sebastian,

Patience is one suggestion. I have a fast machine with fast disks and a 
fast, dual-channel SCSI I/O adaptor (and the install cache and the Cygwin 
working directories are on separate disks and those disks are on separate 
I/O channels) and still it takes a long time for Setup to determine what to 
offer to install. There simply are a lot of separate I/O operations to 
perform to prepare the installation list.

There have been reports that indicate CPU saturation while the 
"intentionally blank [sic]" page is displayed. That's not the case for 
normal operation, of course. Use the "Processes" tab of the "Windows Task 
Manager" to check for this condition. If the CPU utilization is low, then 
Setup is probably still comparing your install cache to your active 
installation.


Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 15:11 2002-05-21, Sebastian Schuberth wrote:
>Hi there,
>
>I'm trying to run Cygwin setup 2.218.2.9 on Win2k but it always crashes at 
>the same point: After selecting the mirror and downloading setup.ini a 
>page saying "This space intentionally left blank" appears and the program 
>does not respond to input anymore. The only way to close it is to kill the 
>task. Any hints how to avoid this?
>
>--
>
>Sebastian Schuberth


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Re: Crash during setup

[Sebastian Schuberth]

Randall,

I've just tried it once more, and right now 25 minutes have passed 
without any progress. I still see this dumb blank page.

BTW: My CPU usage is 100%!

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Sebastian Schuberth

> Sebastian,
> 
> Patience is one suggestion. I have a fast machine with fast disks and a 
> fast, dual-channel SCSI I/O adaptor (and the install cache and the Cygwin 
> working directories are on separate disks and those disks are on separate 
> I/O channels) and still it takes a long time for Setup to determine what to 
> offer to install. There simply are a lot of separate I/O operations to 
> perform to prepare the installation list.
> 
> There have been reports that indicate CPU saturation while the 
> "intentionally blank [sic]" page is displayed. That's not the case for 
> normal operation, of course. Use the "Processes" tab of the "Windows Task 
> Manager" to check for this condition. If the CPU utilization is low, then 
> Setup is probably still comparing your install cache to your active 
> installation.
> 
> 
> Randall Schulz
> Mountain View, CA USA
> 
> 
> At 15:11 2002-05-21, Sebastian Schuberth wrote:
> >Hi there,
> >
> >I'm trying to run Cygwin setup 2.218.2.9 on Win2k but it always crashes at 
> >the same point: After selecting the mirror and downloading setup.ini a 
> >page saying "This space intentionally left blank" appears and the program 
> >does not respond to input anymore. The only way to close it is to kill the 
> >task. Any hints how to avoid this?
> >
> >--
> >
> >Sebastian Schuberth



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Re: Crash during setup

[Nicholas Wourms]

Hi,

Are you using an exisiting folder for your local package directory?  If
so, it is reccommended that you use an empty, new folder.  Just something
I noticed, because otherwise setup.exe is searching all over an existing
folder for setup.ini and may possibly be picking up the wrong one.  Also,
if you are already using a designated folder only for cygwin downloads,
then I suggest clearing out what had been created by previous attempts and
retry from a different mirror.

Cheers,
Nicholas
--- Sebastian Schuberth <s.schuberth@tu-bs.de> wrote:
> Randall,
> 
> I've just tried it once more, and right now 25 minutes have passed 
> without any progress. I still see this dumb blank page.
> 
> BTW: My CPU usage is 100%!
> 
> -- 
> 
> Sebastian Schuberth
> 
> > Sebastian,
> > 
> > Patience is one suggestion. I have a fast machine with fast disks and
> a 
> > fast, dual-channel SCSI I/O adaptor (and the install cache and the
> Cygwin 
> > working directories are on separate disks and those disks are on
> separate 
> > I/O channels) and still it takes a long time for Setup to determine
> what to 
> > offer to install. There simply are a lot of separate I/O operations to
> 
> > perform to prepare the installation list.
> > 
> > There have been reports that indicate CPU saturation while the 
> > "intentionally blank [sic]" page is displayed. That's not the case for
> 
> > normal operation, of course. Use the "Processes" tab of the "Windows
> Task 
> > Manager" to check for this condition. If the CPU utilization is low,
> then 
> > Setup is probably still comparing your install cache to your active 
> > installation.
> > 
> > 
> > Randall Schulz
> > Mountain View, CA USA
> > 
> > 
> > At 15:11 2002-05-21, Sebastian Schuberth wrote:
> > >Hi there,
> > >
> > >I'm trying to run Cygwin setup 2.218.2.9 on Win2k but it always
> crashes at 
> > >the same point: After selecting the mirror and downloading setup.ini
> a 
> > >page saying "This space intentionally left blank" appears and the
> program 
> > >does not respond to input anymore. The only way to close it is to
> kill the 
> > >task. Any hints how to avoid this?
> > >
> > >--
> > >
> > >Sebastian Schuberth
> 
> 
> 
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Re[2]: Crash during setup

[Pavel Tsekov]

NW> folder for setup.ini and may possibly be picking up the wrong one.  Also,
NW> if you are already using a designated folder only for cygwin downloads,
NW> then I suggest clearing out what had been created by previous attempts and
NW> retry from a different mirror.

If this is the case try to search this folder and its subfolders for any files matching
the mask '*setup.ini*' (without quotes) and report to the list.


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Re: Crash during setup

[Sebastian Schuberth]

Hi,

I don't use an existing or designated folder for Cygwin downloads. When 
asking for the local package directory, I specify a directory that does 
not yet exist so it will be created. I also already tried to use 
serveral mirror sites but it does not help. The setup.ini file that gets 
properly downloaded in the local package directory I specified ist 102kb 
in size (MD5 DB7B6E8CD14D8957B4454C2B845C84D6). I sure can post it if 
you like.

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Sebastian Schuberth

> Hi,
> 
> Are you using an exisiting folder for your local package directory?  If
> so, it is reccommended that you use an empty, new folder.  Just something
> I noticed, because otherwise setup.exe is searching all over an existing
> folder for setup.ini and may possibly be picking up the wrong one.  Also,
> if you are already using a designated folder only for cygwin downloads,
> then I suggest clearing out what had been created by previous attempts and
> retry from a different mirror.
> 
> Cheers,
> Nicholas



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RE: Crash during setup

[Sebastian Schuberth]

> setup-2.243 works fine, no more crashing! Thank you very much!

well, i just tried to install lyx 1.1.6 fix 4 under cygwin. as before, 
the current setup.exe crashes and the 2.243 snapshot creates a null 
pointer exception at 0x0043a1a5. as far as i can tell, it does not 
matter where i put lyx' setup.ini (current directory or some sub-
directory).
how am i going to install lyx then?

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RE: Crash during setup

[Sebastian Schuberth]

Hi Rob,

setup-2.243 works fine, no more crashing! Thank you very much!

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Sebastian Schuberth

> > Randall,
> > 
> > I've just tried it once more, and right now 25 minutes have passed 
> > without any progress. I still see this dumb blank page.
> > 
> > BTW: My CPU usage is 100%!
> 
> please try the most recent snapshot from
> http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/
> 
> Rob



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RE: Crash during setup

[Robert Collins]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sebastian Schuberth [mailto:s.schuberth@tu-bs.de] 
> Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 5:34 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: Crash during setup
> 
> 
> Randall,
> 
> I've just tried it once more, and right now 25 minutes have passed 
> without any progress. I still see this dumb blank page.
> 
> BTW: My CPU usage is 100%!

please try the most recent snapshot from
http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/

Rob

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