From: Philip Goetz <philgoetz@gmail.com>
To: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
Cc: The Cygwin Mailing List <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: setup-x86_64.exe crashes randomly on user interaction, too often to use
Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2021 10:55:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALqisMkQoYxEY-Tp=WGuA7EtWYLZy2s9tSbPxb27cVMUwLkZkg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b9b353af-10cd-1cf5-ef68-745d66471eae@dronecode.org.uk>
Hi; sorry for the delay. I used setup 2.909 today to install maybe 100
libraries, and it gave me no problems. Thanks!
On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 9:41 AM Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
wrote:
> On 14/07/2021 21:06, Philip Goetz via Cygwin wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 2:57 PM Philip Goetz <philgoetz@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 9:10 AM Jon Turney wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On 13/07/2021 20:30, Philip Goetz via Cygwin wrote:
> >> ...
> >>>> I change display mode from Pending to Category, and start clicking
> >>>> through the category tree selecting packages.
> >>>> But every time I click on something in the cygwin setup window, or
> >>>> scroll the window, there's maybe 1 chance in 10 that setup-x86_64.exe
> >>>> will terminate.
> >>
> >> ...
> >>
> >>>> I'd like to try using an older Cygwin installer, but I didn't find
> >>>> links to older versions on cygwin.com.
> >>>
> >>> You can find older version of setup at https://cygwin.com/setup/
> >>
> >> Thank you! I tried setup-2.905.x86_64.exe and setup-2.907.x86_64.exe,
> >> and neither gave me any problems!
> >
> > I spoke too soon. I just ran setup-2.907.x86_64.exe again, to install
> > some more programs, and it did the same thing.
> > But I spent a long time in 2.905 without it crashing.
>
> Thanks to the reproduction steps, I was able to (finally) develop some
> useful information about this crash, and that is consistent with where I
> think the problem was introduced.
>
> I've built setup 2.909 with a putative fix for this.
>
> Perhaps you could try that and see if it improves things for you?
>
> Thanks.
>
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-13 19:30 Philip Goetz
2021-07-14 6:56 ` 回复: " ® Fxzx mic
2021-07-14 13:09 ` Jon Turney
2021-07-14 18:57 ` Philip Goetz
2021-07-14 20:06 ` Philip Goetz
2021-07-15 13:40 ` Jon Turney
2021-08-01 14:55 ` Philip Goetz [this message]
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