X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 13:49:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Angelo Graziosi cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 'Fatal Error' from Setup.exe (postgres) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: 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 Sun, 30 Jul 2006, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > I want to flag the following problem. > > With the current setup.ini (20060730 15:00, size 569848) I have the > following 'Fatal error' from Setup.exe: > > ------------------------------------------------ > Fatal error: Uncaught Exception > Thread: Dialogproc > Type: 9Exception > Message: Package validation failure for > > file://C:\cygwin\home\angelo\.....\cygwin/release/postgresql/postgresql-client/postgresql-client-8.0.7-1.tar.bz2 > > AppErrNo:1 > > ------------------------------------------------ > > I am using setup.exe 2.510.2.2 (i.e. the current setup.exe). > > I am using the same file of setup.exe since it was released whithout > problems until today. This is due to a 0-length file used for an empty package. As far as I know, this has already been fixed on sourceware.org, and should propagate to the mirrors soon. You might want to go and physically delete the offending file from your system, as well as clear the IE cache, to pick up the fixed version. FWIW, a newer setup snapshot (see ) did not crash in this situation. HTH, 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/