Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 0x6756a0 win32 error renders cygwin almost useless To: ramon@usofm.com Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: From: Arthur I Schwarz Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 12:29:18 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-SPAM: 0.00 >Can anybody diagnose this problem? Thanks in advance /r? I have continuous problems installing. Setup ungracefully crashes when either an install is attempted on a file not downloaded or if the setup.ini has an unresolvable reference. Hence I have a strategy to installing. If all else fails: 1. Go to the registry and delete all entries to 'cygwin' and 'cygnus' and 'red hat' if appropriate. 2. I always save the old cygwin (C:/cygwin -> C:/cygwin.old), and 3. Create a new cygwin root (C:/cygwin), and then 4. Do a reinstall. Occassionally setup will corrupt the installation so that it is unrecoverable - which seems to be what you are experiencing. Repeat above. I've tried to identify and fix setup errors but can't seem to get it compiled and linked. So I gave up. But there does appear to be some ungraceful coding in setup - and lest I get flamed - Cygwin and the Cygwin staff to a person seem excellent. art -- 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/