Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/02/09/10:38:00
David Arnstein wrote:
> I use the usual setup.exe to keep my Cygwin packages up to date.
> Recently, this executable has been giving me Dr. Watson crashes left and
> right. I think I isolated the problem.
>
> There is a cygwin package xorg-x11-f11. I attempted to re-install it
> from setup.exe. Setup.exe told me that the package is corrupt, I should
> uninstall it and reinstall it.
>
> Setup.exe uninstalled the package without a complaint. Next, I restarted
> setup.exe and I attempted to install xorg-x11-f100. Setup.exe gave a Dr.
> Watson crash again. I repeated this a few times for the sake of stupidity.
>
> I have been using the mirror http://mirrors.kernel.org. When I switched
> to http://mirrors.mcs.anl.gov, the problem went away.
>
> I attach the output from "cygcheck -s -v -r > cygcheck.out" in case it
> is needed.
>
Rather than changing the mirror, you could have gone into your local
package directory, into the mirror directory, and find the tarball for
this package, then delete it.
This will result in setup.exe trying to redownload it (it sounds like
you had a corrupt archive to me).
Chris
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