X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <48A9F8BB.1030705@cygwin.com> Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:33:31 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070505 Remi/2.0.0.0-3.fc4.remi Lightning/0.8 Thunderbird/2.0.0.0 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: How to clean up a setup.exe mess? References: <20080818203719 DOT GA3914 AT panix DOT com> In-Reply-To: <20080818203719.GA3914@panix.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 ran Cygwin's setup.exe and it seemed to hang. So I used the Cancel > button. Verily, setup.exe did then disappear from my peecee. > > I restarted setup.exe and I selected the same mirror as before. This > time, while uninstalling bash, I got an application error: > The instruction at "0x004f42cb" rererenced memory at > "0x00000019". The memory could not be "read". > > The above application error is repeatable. > > My theory is that after the first (cancelled) execution, setup.exe's > state files got into an unusual condition that the program's logic could > not deal with. So, how can I clear out this state? Sounds like the package listing for 'bash' got messed up. You should be able to recover by deleting '/etc/setup/bash.lst.gz'. After that, rerun 'setup.exe'. If you're not using the current 'setup.exe', I'd suggest updating and re-running 'setup.exe' before trying anything else though. See and the note about "Installing and Updating Cygwin". -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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/