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Date: Sun, 03 Jan 2010 23:28:45 -0500
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Subject: Re: Chagrin 1.7.1 install halting on Windows 7
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On 01/02/2010 12:24 PM, Durwin wrote:
> I have just received an Alienware laptop with Windows7.  I downloaded
> and ran the current setup from website.  The install process will stop
> at various stages, not always the same place.  By stop, I mean it looks
> as if it is working, but it never proceeds past that point.  I believe
> it does all the install stages, but will stop at different places after
> the install.
>
> A few times the install completed.  When testing those times, I would
> run bash from Windows command line (just as the .bat file does).  Once I
> got some memory error I can't recall.  The rest of the times I get the
> Cygwin console opening, but goes away imediately without every
> displaying a prompt.  All through this, not one error message.

In this case, you want to start a Windows command prompt and run
c:\cygwin\cygwin.bat from there.  This will keep the command prompt
window open so you can see any complaint.

> My search on this issue showed a few people with simular problem.  One
> had same issue with command line window opening and closing but was using
> 1.5 and their problem went away when they used 1.7.  I suspect the
> problem is the install (even though it completed install a few times).
> I ran msconfig and removed all none Microsoft processes but still could
> not get the install to complete.

Look at /var/log/setup.log.full for any complaints.  My WAG is
<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#BLODA>.

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