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David Arnstein wrote:
> I ran Cygwin's setup.exe and it seemed to hang. So I used the Cancel
> button. Verily, setup.exe did then disappear from my peecee.
> 
> I restarted setup.exe and I selected the same mirror as before. This
> time, while uninstalling bash, I got an application error:
> 	The instruction at "0x004f42cb" rererenced memory at
> 	"0x00000019". The memory could not be "read".
> 
> The above application error is repeatable.
> 
> My theory is that after the first (cancelled) execution, setup.exe's
> state files got into an unusual condition that the program's logic could
> not deal with. So, how can I clear out this state?

Sounds like the package listing for 'bash' got messed up.  You should be
able to recover by deleting '/etc/setup/bash.lst.gz'.  After that, rerun
'setup.exe'.  If you're not using the current 'setup.exe', I'd suggest
updating and re-running 'setup.exe' before trying anything else though.
See <cygwin.com> and the note about "Installing and Updating Cygwin".

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