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Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 09:21:20 +1100
From: Robert Collins <rbcollins AT cygwin DOT com>
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To: Max Bowsher <maxb AT ukf DOT net>
CC: Vince Hoffman <vince DOT hoffman AT uk DOT circle DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Corrected: setup.exe beta (testing needed - really!)
References: <1048679085 DOT 9951 DOT 11 DOT camel AT localhost> <01b601c2f3ab$d9caa9d0$0a00010a AT unsane DOT co DOT uk> <1048714873 DOT 9946 DOT 37 DOT camel AT localhost> <001501c2f3e4$659e9560$5300a8c0 AT pomello>
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Max Bowsher wrote:
> Robert Collins wrote:
> 
>>On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 02:24, Vince Hoffman wrote:
>>
>>>Havent a clean system to try a full install. however on running it to
>>>upgrade/add packages  the first run crashed .
>>>on the second run all was fine and componants were added/updated
>>>perfectly. I tried running a few more times to reproduce the crash and
>>>on average about one in 5 times (very rough average) it crashed.(see
>>>attached drwatson crashlog) for log of 2 of these crashes.
> 
> 
> I'm getting this too - but only on my desktop - not my laptop.
> 
> Crash frequency is only 1 in 20, as well.
> 
> 
>>Ok, well this is 'not good' :}.
>>
>>At what point does it crash?
> 
> 
> Before the splash page appears.

Ah. Can you reproduce it under gdb? If not, can you generate the line 
numbers from the addresses in the backtrace (hint: fire up gdb, load the 
.exe that you used to provoke the problem, and then
list *0x000223344 )

Cheers,
Rob



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