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David Been wrote:
> I've used cygwin on many computers since the early 1990's, so i have
> an idea how setup is supposed to work, no expert, but it gets to the
> end of downloading, says:
> 
> Uninstalling bash ...
> 
> and "setup.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close, sorry etc"......
> 
> i have tried this repeatedly with different mirrors.   If i restart on
> the same mirror it appears to check MD5's and jump to the Uninstalling
> bash crash.
> 
> Should i delete my c:/temp cache and c:/cygwin (saving my stuff) and
> start over?
> Or is there a way forward.
> 
> i searched the web, the mailing lists to no avail.

What version of 'setup.exe' are you running?  Perhaps it's a bad
'bash.lst.gz' file in '/etc/setup'?  If so, you could try moving
it out of the way and trying again.

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