Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: Setup program is hanging MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 21:39:34 +1000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.5762.3 content-class: urn:content-classes:message Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Robert Collins" To: "Mark Sztainbok" , Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id g4ABeDT27994 > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Sztainbok [mailto:sz@myretsu.com] > Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 11:12 AM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Setup program is hanging > > > When I try to run the Cygwin setup program (version > 2.194.2.26), it downloads setup.ini and then uses a lot of > CPU time and displays a blank screen saying "This space is > left intentionally blank" and I have to end up killing the program. > > I've also tried using the two snapshot versions (2.216 and > 2.218.2.2) from http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots and in > both cases I get a parse stack overflow error in setup.ini. > > I'm running Windows XP Professional. > > What is causing the setup program to fail as I'm findingiit > frustrating that currently I can't update my Cygwin > installation especially given that it was working about a > week or two ago? There was a latent bug in setup that recent package listing changes triggered. The latest snapshot corrects this AFAICT. Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/