X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 21:39:59 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Matt Clapp cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: cygwins setup hangs in installation In-Reply-To: <20051230233038.58909.qmail@web30211.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: References: <20051230233038.58909.qmail@web30211.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Fri, 30 Dec 2005, Matt Clapp wrote: > I DON'T have a hyperthreaded processor, and still see hangs with the > current stable version of setup.exe (v. 2.510.2.2) It hangs > indefinitely during update-info-dir.sh. My computer is a Pentium-M > 1.4GHz, 760MB RAM. This is a known bug (which is known to have nothing to do with hyperthreading)... > The good news: setup.exe does work fine if I use one of the unstable > versions (v. 2.523) Then I get no hang and everything seems fine. ...which is fixed in CVS (but it's good to know it's fixed)... > I can forward more information if anybody wants it (like the setup log). > I just thought I'd bring to people's attention that hangs do exist on > single, non-hyperthreaded processors, and that the newer setup.exe > versions seem to fix that. ...so that's that. Thanks for the confirmation. BTW, IIRC, 2.523 is a release candidate. Brian, do you think it's ready to go out there as "current stable"? Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- 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/