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: <001a01c33126$db259f20$5c16989e@oemcomputer> Reply-To: "Peter S Tillier" From: "Peter S Tillier" To: "Cygwin" References: <3EE63583 DOT 26123 DOT 7E0996 AT localhost> Subject: Re: Setup hangs between "create icons" and "postinstall" und Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 22:09:03 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Will Marsh wrote: > I downloaded the latest version of Setup (2.340.2.5) and have tried > to > install it several times under Win ME 4.90.3000. It always hangs at > the same point, right after "Create Icons", with the following > message > in a DOS window: "This program has performed an illegal > operation and > will be terminated. Quit all programs and then restart your > computer." If I click on the "Details" box, all it gives me is "Fault > Location : C000.0D66" Restarting windows at this point and > trying > to run Cygwin gives the same message with a different "Fault > Location >: C000.7A00" > > At this point, if I check C:\cygwin\etc\postinstall, all the files > have .sh at the end, none have the .done. C:\cygwin\var\log doesn't > exist. > > I've tried the default install, the ALL install, and the default + a > few packages. Same results for all of them. I've tried running setup > again over the top, same results. I've tried deleting the whole thing > (directories, registry entries, Setup) and starting over, same > results. > > Any ideas or other things I should check? I guess you have checked that your Windows ME has all the latest service packs and/or patches applied? Don't know if this will help, but it may be worth a shot. -- Peter S Tillier "Who needs perl when you can write dc, sokoban, arkanoid and an unlambda interpreter in sed?" -- 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/