X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4F9B77B1.9070200@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 06:53:05 +0200 From: marco atzeri User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120420 Thunderbird/12.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin 1.7.14-2 setup.exe v2.772 broken? References: <4F9B1EF7.1080501@comcast.net> <4F9B6DC1.3030303@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4F9B6DC1.3030303@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 4/28/2012 6:10 AM, marco atzeri wrote: > On 4/28/2012 12:34 AM, Ken wrote: >> Hello, >> >> When attempting to do a download "ONLY", setup.exe caused the following >> error to be displayed on Windows 7 64-bit: >> >> ======================================================= >> Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library: >> >> This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual >> way. >> Please contact the application's support team for more information. >> ======================================================= >> >> I tried a few different mirrors with the same result. >> >> Then, I used a previous version of setup.exe, v2.769, and, aside from >> the warning that the setup.ini file is from a newer version of setup, it >> worked fine. >> >> Is setup v2.772 broken? >> >> Kind regards, >> Ken >> > > I will bet more on BLODA. I already saw something like that in the past > in an old version when downloading the mirror list. > > Marco > > Hi Ken, I just noted the same error with 2.772 when downloading from my site that has only setup.ini and not setup.bz2. Adding the setup.bz2 bypassed the crash, but crash on missing setup.bz2.sig ; usually I do not see it as I use setup -X that skips the signature check. BLODA is still a possibility, I have Symantec installed; or there is subtle bug handling the missing files on the website Marco -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple