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 Message-ID: <3E8B7EF6.1040706@cygwin.com> Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 10:23:18 +1000 From: Robert Collins User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-au, en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Martin Gainty CC: Marcel Telka , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: setup.exe troubleshooting snapshot References: <20030402070846.GB10343@tortuga.etc.sk> <3E8A90A7.9000308@cygwin.com> <20030402074100.GC10343@tortuga.etc.sk> <3E8A95D6.6090704@cygwin.com> <20030402080203.GD10343@tortuga.etc.sk> <3E8AC862.8070303@cygwin.com> <20030402114525.GJ10343@tortuga.etc.sk> <3E8AD4AD.3020703@cygwin.com> <20030402122645.GK10343@tortuga.etc.sk> <3E8AE0AC.1050901@cygwin.com> <20030402133039.GB31093@tortuga.etc.sk> <3E8AE7C5.2020407@cygwin.com> <3E8B711C.4070203@cygwin.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Martin Gainty wrote: > Rob- > How does the unsuspecting public understand what is happening here. The same way I had to: study the code, eliminate whats occuring, review the API usage, test, test, test. > Does DrWatson pick this up OR is there something in the logfile Neither. DrWatson catches the segmentation fault, but the backtrace is useless in this case. Nothing goes to the logfile, because setup crashes! 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/