Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <3E8B7EF6.1040706@cygwin.com> Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 10:23:18 +1000 From: Robert Collins User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-au, en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Martin Gainty CC: Marcel Telka , cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: setup.exe troubleshooting snapshot References: <20030402070846 DOT GB10343 AT tortuga DOT etc DOT sk> <3E8A90A7 DOT 9000308 AT cygwin DOT com> <20030402074100 DOT GC10343 AT tortuga DOT etc DOT sk> <3E8A95D6 DOT 6090704 AT cygwin DOT com> <20030402080203 DOT GD10343 AT tortuga DOT etc DOT sk> <3E8AC862 DOT 8070303 AT cygwin DOT com> <20030402114525 DOT GJ10343 AT tortuga DOT etc DOT sk> <3E8AD4AD DOT 3020703 AT cygwin DOT com> <20030402122645 DOT GK10343 AT tortuga DOT etc DOT sk> <3E8AE0AC DOT 1050901 AT cygwin DOT com> <20030402133039 DOT GB31093 AT tortuga DOT etc DOT sk> <3E8AE7C5 DOT 2020407 AT cygwin DOT com> <3E8B711C DOT 4070203 AT cygwin DOT com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Martin Gainty wrote: > Rob- > How does the unsuspecting public understand what is happening here. The same way I had to: study the code, eliminate whats occuring, review the API usage, test, test, test. > Does DrWatson pick this up OR is there something in the logfile Neither. DrWatson catches the segmentation fault, but the backtrace is useless in this case. Nothing goes to the logfile, because setup crashes! Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/