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Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:59:49 -0500
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Subject: Re: setup.exe 2.573.2.2 is crashing in Windows XP
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Alan Humphrey wrote:
> I'm having the same problem, only on Vista.
> 
> 
> Visual Studio Debugger reports:
> 
> Unhandled exception at 0x004ac7e3 in setup.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation
> reading location 0x01a1ff3c.
> 
> Event Viewer says:
> 
> Faulting application setup.exe_unknown, version 0.0.0.0, time stamp
> 0x46821e21, faulting module setup.exe, version 0.0.0.0, time stamp
> 0x46821e21, exception code 0xc0000005, fault offset 0x000ac7e3, process id
> 0x12a8, application start time 0x01c858701d7a3b44.
> 
> Note: setup.exe reports its version as 2.573.2.2
> 
> I installed an older version of setup (2.510.2.2) from another box and it
> worked just fine.

There's a debug version of 2.573.2.2 and two later versions (2.575 and
2.578) available as snapshots at <http://cygwin.com/setup/snapshots/>
if you're interested in tracking things down/trying out other options.

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