X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <43E86D77.4090701@equate.dyndns.org> Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 09:50:47 +0000 From: Chris Taylor Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051017) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Arnstein CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Corrupt xorg-x11-f100? References: <43E85C54 DOT 4030807 AT pobox DOT com> In-Reply-To: <43E85C54.4030807@pobox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 David Arnstein wrote: > I use the usual setup.exe to keep my Cygwin packages up to date. > Recently, this executable has been giving me Dr. Watson crashes left and > right. I think I isolated the problem. > > There is a cygwin package xorg-x11-f11. I attempted to re-install it > from setup.exe. Setup.exe told me that the package is corrupt, I should > uninstall it and reinstall it. > > Setup.exe uninstalled the package without a complaint. Next, I restarted > setup.exe and I attempted to install xorg-x11-f100. Setup.exe gave a Dr. > Watson crash again. I repeated this a few times for the sake of stupidity. > > I have been using the mirror http://mirrors.kernel.org. When I switched > to http://mirrors.mcs.anl.gov, the problem went away. > > I attach the output from "cygcheck -s -v -r > cygcheck.out" in case it > is needed. > Rather than changing the mirror, you could have gone into your local package directory, into the mirror directory, and find the tarball for this package, then delete it. This will result in setup.exe trying to redownload it (it sounds like you had a corrupt archive to me). Chris -- Spinning complacently in the darkness, covered and blinded by a blanket of little lives, false security has lulled the madness of this world into a slumber. Wake up! An eye is upon you, staring straight down and keenly through, seeing all that you are and everything that you will never be. Yes, an eye is upon you, an eye ready to blink. So face forward, with arms wide open and mind reeling. Your future has arrived... Are you ready to go? -- 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/