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From: "Robert L. Oelschlaeger" <roelsch AT comtrak DOT com>
To: "'Pavel Tsekov'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Setup 2.249.2.3 on Win2k hangs while uninstalling packages
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 08:38:01 -0500
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com]On Behalf
>Of Pavel Tsekov
>Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 2:52 AM
>To: Robert L. Oelschlaeger
>Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>Subject: Re: Setup 2.249.2.3 on Win2k hangs while uninstalling packages
>
>
>RLO> Running setup.exe 2.249.2.3 on Win2K, Service Pack 2.
>
>RLO> New packages are downloaded correctly (in this case, 
>openssh needed an
>RLO> update). When setup tries to uninstall the old openssh, 
>it hangs, eventually
>RLO> using up all available RAM, until a dialog box appears to 
>warn about 'low on
>RLO> system memory'.
>
>Does it crash regardless of the package or just when uninstalling
>OpenSSH ? Can you try to just uninstall a package (i.e. not automatic
>uninstall as part of upgrading a package) and see if it crashes in
>this case ?
>
Pavel:

Thanks for your help so far!

When this problem first occurred last Friday, setup was
trying to uninstall an older version of 'popt'.

I just tried setup.exe again, setting it up to just
uninstall python (which was the original goal on Friday: I
thought I had a conflict between the Cygwin Python and
ActiveState Python that was preventing me from correctly
generating a Windows .exe).

Today's python uninstall attempt had the same symptom: 99%
of the machine is devoted to setup.exe, and memory
utilization climbs and climbs and climbs...

Bob  

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