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Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2021 14:57:01 -0400
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Subject: Re: setup-x86_64.exe crashes randomly on user interaction, too often
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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!