From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10885 invoked by alias); 10 May 2002 11:39:41 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 10814 invoked from network); 10 May 2002 11:39:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO itdomain003.itdomain.net.au) (203.63.157.208) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 10 May 2002 11:39:35 -0000 Subject: RE: Setup program is hanging MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 04:45:00 -0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.5762.3 content-class: urn:content-classes:message Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Robert Collins" To: "Mark Sztainbok" , X-SW-Source: 2002-05/txt/msg00611.txt.bz2 > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Sztainbok [mailto:sz@myretsu.com]=20 > Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 11:12 AM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Setup program is hanging >=20 >=20 > When I try to run the Cygwin setup program (version=20 > 2.194.2.26), it downloads setup.ini and then uses a lot of=20 > CPU time and displays a blank screen saying "This space is=20 > left intentionally blank" and I have to end up killing the program. >=20 > I've also tried using the two snapshot versions (2.216 and=20 > 2.218.2.2) from http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots and in=20 > both cases I get a parse stack overflow error in setup.ini. >=20 > I'm running Windows XP Professional. >=20 > What is causing the setup program to fail as I'm findingiit=20 > frustrating that currently I can't update my Cygwin=20 > installation especially given that it was working about a=20 > week or two ago? There was a latent bug in setup that recent package listing changes triggered. The latest snapshot corrects this AFAICT. Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/