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: <025801c4c6bd$75306140$e6ec6f83@robinson.cam.ac.uk> From: "Max Bowsher" To: "Luke Kendall" , References: <20041108070942.1785884C35@pessard.research.canon.com.au> Subject: Re: What to do when setup fails? Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 00:37:25 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Cam-ScannerInfo: http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/email/scanner/ X-Cam-AntiVirus: No virus found X-Cam-SpamDetails: Not scanned X-IsSubscribed: yes Note-from-DJ: This may be spam Luke Kendall wrote: > I recently found another system that Cygwin setup failed on every time. > > I'm installing from a local mirror for which all the checksums are good. > > It fails due to mount, apparently. A panel titled "Mount" pops up > after the download stage, saying: "The operation completed > successfully", and then setup exits. > > I tried several times, with failures pretty consistent but just small > variations on this theme. Bizarre. I've noted this in setup's bug tracker for attention when my university work eases off. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/