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Subject: RE: Setup program is hanging
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Sztainbok [mailto:sz AT myretsu DOT com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 11:12 AM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Setup program is hanging
> 
> 
> When I try to run the Cygwin setup program (version 
> 2.194.2.26), it downloads setup.ini and then uses a lot of 
> CPU time and displays a blank screen saying "This space is 
> left intentionally blank" and I have to end up killing the program.
> 
> I've also tried using the two snapshot versions (2.216 and 
> 2.218.2.2) from http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots and in 
> both cases I get a parse stack overflow error in setup.ini.
> 
> I'm running Windows XP Professional.
> 
> What is causing the setup program to fail as I'm findingiit 
> frustrating that currently I can't update my Cygwin 
> installation especially given that it was working about a 
> week or two ago?

There was a latent bug in setup that recent package listing changes
triggered. The latest snapshot corrects this AFAICT.

Rob

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