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From:	Jongo Pak <Jongo DOT P AT web DOT de>
Subject:	Re: setup hangs at 99%, then crashes
Date:	Wed, 20 Oct 2004 09:17:41 +0200
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Hi John,

I had problems to RE-install cygwin too (but under Win98 and older 
setup.exe, with XP SP2 I had no such problems). To clean up entirely, 
you should not only wipe out the directory structure but also delete 
registry entries (helped in my case, I had similar problems):

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus 
Solutions

and

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus 
Solutions

Maybe there are more (I didn't find any).

Did you install as administrator or priviledged user (I didn't try out 
the last one, so this might not work anyway...)?

Even if cleaning up registry doesn't answer the question on failed 
virgin installation, this might ease up following attempts...

regards

/JP

John Westbrook wrote:
> I am attempting to setup cygwin using setup.exe v.2.427 on Windows XP.
> I am doing a full install from a local directory. When the
> installation has reached 99%, setup hangs and will later crash, if
> given enough time.
> 
> There are several discussions about setup failing in the post-install
> phase (such as problems running a shell script), but my problem seems
> to be occuring at the very end of the installation phase (the progress
> page shows "installing _update-info-dir-00230-1...").
> 
> If you let it sit there long enough (e.g. overnight), eventually
> windows begins to report that it is allocating more virtual memory,
> and some time after that setup will crash ("setup.exe has asked
> windows to terminate in an unusual way").
> 
> My XP installation is rather fresh (about a month old), and I have not
> had cygwin installed before. However, I have had cygwin installed on
> this machine running Windows 2000. I am installing to the default root
> (c:\cygwin) from c:\tmp\cygwin.
> 
> I have tried the install three times, but it consistently fails. Note
> that I have made sure to clean up after the previous bad install (wipe
> out the directory structure).
> 
> After an almost-complete installation, I have just under 1G of free
> disk space. That is to say, I started with about 2G of space.
> Therefore I would rule out insufficient disk space.
> 
> One note, my XP username has a space in it. I read in the FAQ that
> this will cause problems, but I suspect it would be a different set of
> problems that I have yet to encounter.
> 
> Thanks.
> 


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