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From: ERIC HO <ericmho AT shaw DOT ca>
Subject: Re: Setup Error (fixed)
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I manually removed the rxvt entry from installed.db and run the setup to install/reinstall the rxvt without problem. What a strange setup error and a learning experience!! I was close to giving up on this segmentation fault error.
----- Original Message -----
From: ERIC HO <ericmho AT shaw DOT ca>
Date: Saturday, September 1, 2007 10:56 am
Subject: Re: Setup Error
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com

> I manually untared the cygwin, coreuils packages and got the 
> commands back. But I still cannot run the setup which gives me 
> segmentation fault when uninstalling rxvt. If there are no  
> other way for me to stop rxvt from uninstalling when running 
> setup, I guess I will have to live with manually installing the 
> new/update packages until I move to a new machine. Thanks.
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: ERIC HO <ericmho AT shaw DOT ca>
> Date: Saturday, September 1, 2007 9:57 am
> Subject: Re: Setup Error
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> 
> > I tried to reinstall the coreutils and cywin and it is getting 
> > worse because now many commands like ls, echo, uname, mount 
> and 
> > umount cannot be found. I cannot rename/delete the cygwin root 
> > folder. Any thing I can do manually to stop it from 
> uninstalling 
> > rxvt which causes the setup error or any work around solutions 
> > like unzipping the indivually packages? Is my only choice is 
> to 
> > delete the registry tree Software\Cygnus Solutions under 
> > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and/or HKEY_CURRENT_USER and reboot the 
> > machine for me to rename/delete cygwin root folder? It seems 
> > drastic. Thanks
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: ERIC HO <ericmho AT shaw DOT ca>
> > Date: Friday, August 31, 2007 7:14 pm
> > Subject: Re: Setup Error
> > To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> > 
> > > I did a gdb on setup and saw the following messages 
> when  
> > > uninstalling rxvt:
> > > warning: LOG: 2 Running preremove script for  rxvt
> > > warning: LOG: 2 Uninstalling rxvt
> > > 
> > > Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> > > [Switching to thread 2648.0x1cc]
> > > 0x004ac7e3 in ?? ()
> > > 
> > > Any idea? Thanks.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: ERIC HO <ericmho AT shaw DOT ca>
> > > Date: Friday, August 31, 2007 7:34 am
> > > Subject: Setup Error
> > > To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> > > 
> > > > I'm running snapshot 2007-08-10. When I ran setup to 
> install 
> > > the 
> > > > new rxvt, it hang. I then canceled the install. Now 
> > everytime 
> > > I 
> > > > ran the setup again, it tries to uninstall rxvt. But then 
> > > setup 
> > > > encountered an error and closed. It seems some 
> > files/registers 
> > > > corrupted. Is ther anyway to workaround this 
> problem?  
> > > Any 
> > > > doc will help? The same problem with snapshot 2007-08-13. 
> I 
> > > did 
> > > > try rebooting the machine twice but to no avail. Thanks.

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