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 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: Serious Installation problems - possible workround but rapid fix required. Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 12:17:42 -0000 Message-ID: <5141442C74119B45993BD8CF3DC8C9F12E831A@exchng3.physics.ox.ac.uk> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "John Macallister" To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id iAPCI403002233 I've installed Cygwin a few times before and I was fairly confident of installing version 1.5.12 but what a disaster this distribution is! I don't want anyone in particular to feel they're the object of criticism but this release may put off many users from trying to use Cygwin at all because it's just not possible to install it without a great deal of trouble with the current distribution kit. I would suggest a rapid re-release is needed (I'm willing to field test it for you as far as the installation procedure is concerned) before too many people discover the problem! I've tried downloading and/or installing directly from 16 different download sites just in case there was a problem mirroring. Some sites failed with installation incomplete (consistently e.g. mirror.ac.uk) but most ended up in some sort of endless shell loop at 90+% of the way through with virtual memory increasing endlessly: even setting a pagefile size of 2.5GB was not enough! Here's what I did. (1) Download from rcn.net (This just happens to be the one that worked but all the successful downloads looked identical). (2) Install from local disk using "Install" for everything. This produced some "missing database" errors and didn't complete properly. I just cancelled the "Try again?" request. (3) Install again from local disk using "Reinstall" for everything. This produced many errors about "missing cygz.dll". It eventually completed and produced a desktop icon,etc. However almost nothing worked because of the missing cygz.dll. (4) Install again using "Default" for everything but "Install" for X11. (By this time I had read some of the mailing lists!) The installation completed without error. Everything I use appears to work and I now have a working version of 1.5.12. I hope this helps. Cheers, John Name: John B. Macallister E-mail: j DOT macallister1 AT physics DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk Post: Denys Wilkinson Building, Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3RH,UK Phone: +44-1865-273388 (direct) 273333 (reception) 273418 (Fax) -- 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/