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 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Djuq8CF5+2PhIZqkF7xE/KkfHkPvt4Ve1oGOaD+QIczw61km9ARea4FZUxoQ7vVB/NV7Q2ZbnnPV8c8fNjd6kuUodBwIB1HipX4A89BFQMDw82IsAJLL9MV0yW7qkjKlSV1IUKHToXif/bIrvtWC6vWyWUHWcx1GZNdx6TfR/+w Message-ID: <7dd7b97a041018181585e0eb5@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 21:15:07 -0400 From: John Westbrook Reply-To: John Westbrook To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: setup hangs at 99%, then crashes Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am attempting to setup cygwin using setup.exe v.2.427 on Windows XP. I am doing a full install from a local directory. When the installation has reached 99%, setup hangs and will later crash, if given enough time. There are several discussions about setup failing in the post-install phase (such as problems running a shell script), but my problem seems to be occuring at the very end of the installation phase (the progress page shows "installing _update-info-dir-00230-1..."). If you let it sit there long enough (e.g. overnight), eventually windows begins to report that it is allocating more virtual memory, and some time after that setup will crash ("setup.exe has asked windows to terminate in an unusual way"). My XP installation is rather fresh (about a month old), and I have not had cygwin installed before. However, I have had cygwin installed on this machine running Windows 2000. I am installing to the default root (c:\cygwin) from c:\tmp\cygwin. I have tried the install three times, but it consistently fails. Note that I have made sure to clean up after the previous bad install (wipe out the directory structure). After an almost-complete installation, I have just under 1G of free disk space. That is to say, I started with about 2G of space. Therefore I would rule out insufficient disk space. One note, my XP username has a space in it. I read in the FAQ that this will cause problems, but I suspect it would be a different set of problems that I have yet to encounter. Thanks. -- 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/