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: <20030527052859.6039.qmail@web14001.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 22:28:59 -0700 (PDT) From: j m Subject: RE: installation problem To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I think I may have fixed, or at least bypassed, my problem. I didn't understand the installation options and I was trying to install from disk before anything had been downloaded. When I install from Internet, everything is fine. Evan --- j m wrote: > I am having a similar problem. I'm using Win98SE. This is my first ever > installation of Cygwin, so I think I don't even have a /var/log yet. When I > run setup.exe, I accept the defaults of c:\cygwin, 'all users', and 'Unix > text', and then it crashes (Illegal operation). > > I also have McAfee AntiVirus installed. > > How do I run the debug snapshot of cygwin you mentioned? > > Thanks, > Evan > > ----- > * From: Igor Pechtchanski > * To: vanloocm > * Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com > * Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 11:19:10 -0400 (EDT) > * Subject: RE: installation problem > * Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com > > Hmm, these aren't the logs of the session when the crash happened. If you > got them from the same directory as setup.exe, please attach the ones from > /var/log instead. FYI, setup.log.full gets overwritten every time you run > setup, so if you have run setup since, please try to reproduce the crash > before you attach the log file. > > As for the OS [Operating System], I meant the version of Windows you're > running. > Igor > > On Mon, 26 May 2003, vanloocm wrote: > > > Thanks for your reply. > > > > I've attached to this email the setup.log and setup.log.full files...do you > > think Mcafee antivirus is the problem? > > Could you give me the address of the OS to which you adviced me to send > those > > files? > > > > Thank you again. > > > > Regards. > > > > Melanie. > > > > > > >===== Original Message From cygwin AT cygwin DOT com ===== > > >On Mon, 26 May 2003, vanloocm wrote: > > > > > >> Hi, > > >> > > >> I've downloaded cygwin (from http://cygwin.com) and tried to install > > >> it but the installation do not work and I receive the following error > > >> message: > > >> > > >> The instruction memory at "0x0045f1b0" referenced memory at > > >> "0x00000000". The memory could not de "written". > > >> > > >> Does anyone no what that means and what I should do. > > >> > > >> Thanks in advance. > > >> Melanie > > > > > >This means that there is most likely a bug in the version of setup that > > >you downloaded. It might be a good idea if you mentioned the OS that this > > >happens on and posted your setup.log and setup.log.full (which can be > > >found in either the directory you ran setup from or /var/log, depending on > > >how far you've gotten). It would probably make sense to post them > > >compressed. > > > > > >Another thing you might want to do is run the debug snapshot of setup.exe > > >and report where it crashes (if it does). This would allow people to at > > >least match the crashing address to the function name. > > > Igor > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. > http://search.yahoo.com > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/