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Subject:	RE: cygwins setup hangs in installation
Date:	Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:43:50 -0500
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>> I DON'T have a hyperthreaded processor, and still see hangs with the
>> current stable version of setup.exe (v. 2.510.2.2)  It hangs
>> indefinitely during update-info-dir.sh.  My computer is a Pentium-M
>> 1.4GHz, 760MB RAM.
>
>This is a known bug (which is known to have nothing to do with
>hyperthreading)...
>
>> The good news: setup.exe does work fine if I use one of the unstable
>> versions (v. 2.523)  Then I get no hang and everything seems fine.
>
>...which is fixed in CVS (but it's good to know it's fixed)...

Looks like setup 2.510.2.2 is still the current version.  Does anyone
know when a fixed version of setup will be released that doesn't hang in
update-info-dir.sh?

Brett
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