From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11387 invoked by alias); 20 Dec 2017 10:39:19 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 11372 invoked by uid 89); 20 Dec 2017 10:39:18 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=setup-x86_64, setupx86, setupx86_64, setup-x86 X-HELO: mx009.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net Received: from mx009.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net (HELO mx009.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net) (153.92.174.39) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 20 Dec 2017 10:39:16 +0000 Received: from vsmx002.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net (unknown [192.168.75.192]) by mta-6-out.mta.xion.oxcs.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F238D9B862 for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2017 10:39:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Gertrud (unknown [87.185.208.240]) by mta-6-out.mta.xion.oxcs.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id CC9B2199C8A for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2017 10:39:11 +0000 (UTC) From: Achim Gratz To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin installation fails in Windows 10 when running with --quite-mode References: Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 12:25:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: (Arkady's message of "Tue, 19 Dec 2017 10:37:45 +0200") Message-ID: <87lghxel9t.fsf@Rainer.invalid> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-VADE-STATUS: LEGIT X-SW-Source: 2017-12/txt/msg00213.txt.bz2 Arkady writes: > Another update: the quite mode sometimes succeeds. I estimate that the > success rate is 30%. It rarely succeeds very first time. > > The problem is definitely not new. See, for example, > https://github.com/boxcutter/windows/blob/master/floppy/cygwin.bat#L50 > The batch start with rather encouraging "Force CYGWIN_ARCH to 32-bit - > 64-bit seems to crash a lot" This is long outdated nonsense just like many of the options they use in the CYGWIN environment variable (that are also missing a space, so they wouldn't have worked on an old enough Cygwin either. BTW, you shouldn't download setup-x86_64 and then store it as setup-x86 in CYGWIN.PS1. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Factory and User Sound Singles for Waldorf Blofeld: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#WaldorfSounds -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple