X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 15:10:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Greg Chicares cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 1.5.24: setup.exe segfault In-Reply-To: <46192F3C.5070607@cox.net> Message-ID: References: <4618F2EF.70402@cox.net> <46192F3C.5070607@cox.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: 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, 8 Apr 2007, Greg Chicares wrote: > On 2007-4-8 14:45 UTC, Igor Peshansky wrote: > > On Sun, 8 Apr 2007, Greg Chicares wrote: > > > >> I've run setup.exe numerous times this morning, and it segfaulted > >> only once. I tried again, but couldn't reproduce the problem. > [...] > > It doesn't look like you're running the latest snapshot of setup -- please > > try that (from ). > [...] > > If you can reproduce the crash with the latest snapshot, we could get a > > more accurate diagnosis with addr2line. > > I followed the link you gave, and downloaded this file: > http://cygwin.com/setup/snapshots/setup-2.562.exe > It did not crash. It let me retrieve the package I wanted, then > successfully updated that package: > > /cygdrive/c/cygwin-cache[0]$cygcheck -s -v -r |grep mingw-runtime > mingw-runtime 3.11-1 > /cygdrive/c/cygwin-cache[0]$./setup-2.562.exe > /cygdrive/c/cygwin-cache[0]$cygcheck -s -v -r |grep mingw-runtime > mingw-runtime 3.12-4 > > Let me point out two small things: > > (1) The initial screen says "Copyright 2000-2006"; should it say > 2007 instead of 2006? Yep. Thanks. > (2) When I did "Download Without Installing" as a separate step to > fetch this package, setup-2.562.exe terminated without showing the > Cygwin Setup > Download Complete > OK > messagebox I've grown accustomed to seeing. Is the lack of that > messagebox a new feature? I mistook it for an abend; but, running > it under gdb, everything looked okay even though the messagebox > did not appear: > > /cygdrive/c/cygwin-cache[0]$gdb ./setup-2.562.exe > GNU gdb 6.5.50.20060706-cvs (cygwin-special) > [big snip] > warning: .ini setup_version is 2.510.2.2, our setup_version is 2.562 > warning: LOG: 2 note: Download Complete > warning: LOG: 2 Ending cygwin install > > Program exited normally. > (gdb) q Ah, the message box was indeed removed, and the final message was folded into the screen that offered to create the desktop and start menu shortcuts. However, what I missed was the fact that this screen is not shown in download-only mode. Thanks for the report -- I'll fix this. 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! Freedom is just another word for "nothing left to lose"... -- Janis Joplin -- 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/