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From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: 1.5.24: setup.exe segfault
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On Sun, 8 Apr 2007, Igor Peshansky wrote:

> On Sun, 8 Apr 2007, Greg Chicares wrote:
>
> > On 2007-4-8 14:45 UTC, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> > > On Sun, 8 Apr 2007, Greg Chicares wrote:
> > >
> > >> I've run setup.exe numerous times this morning, and it segfaulted
> > >> only once. I tried again, but couldn't reproduce the problem.
> > [...]
> > > It doesn't look like you're running the latest snapshot of setup -- please
> > > try that (from <http://cygwin.com/setup/snapshots/>).
> > [...]
> > > If you can reproduce the crash with the latest snapshot, we could get a
> > > more accurate diagnosis with addr2line.
> >
> > I followed the link you gave, and downloaded this file:
> >   http://cygwin.com/setup/snapshots/setup-2.562.exe
> > It did not crash. It let me retrieve the package I wanted, then
> > successfully updated that package:
> >
> > /cygdrive/c/cygwin-cache[0]$cygcheck -s -v -r |grep mingw-runtime
> > mingw-runtime        3.11-1
> > /cygdrive/c/cygwin-cache[0]$./setup-2.562.exe
> > /cygdrive/c/cygwin-cache[0]$cygcheck -s -v -r |grep mingw-runtime
> > mingw-runtime        3.12-4
> >
> > Let me point out two small things:
> >
> > (1) The initial screen says "Copyright 2000-2006"; should it say
> > 2007 instead of 2006?
>
> Yep.  Thanks.
>
> > (2) When I did "Download Without Installing" as a separate step to
> > fetch this package, setup-2.562.exe terminated without showing the
> >   Cygwin Setup
> >   Download Complete
> >   OK
> > messagebox I've grown accustomed to seeing. Is the lack of that
> > messagebox a new feature? I mistook it for an abend; but, running
> > it under gdb, everything looked okay even though the messagebox
> > did not appear:
> >
> > /cygdrive/c/cygwin-cache[0]$gdb ./setup-2.562.exe
> > GNU gdb 6.5.50.20060706-cvs (cygwin-special)
> > [big snip]
> > warning: .ini setup_version is 2.510.2.2, our setup_version is 2.562
> > warning: LOG: 2 note: Download Complete
> > warning: LOG: 2 Ending cygwin install
> >
> > Program exited normally.
> > (gdb) q
>
> Ah, the message box was indeed removed, and the final message was folded
> into the screen that offered to create the desktop and start menu
> shortcuts.  However, what I missed was the fact that this screen is not
> shown in download-only mode.  Thanks for the report -- I'll fix this.

Ok, just to follow up.  This is now fixed in CVS.  The next setup snapshot
(>2.568) will show installation status as part of the final dialog.
Thanks again for testing.
	Igor
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