X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <49A7D1CE.4010304@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:43:10 +0000 From: Dave Korn User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Problem [1.5] gdbm update failure References: <49A77966 DOT 1060807 AT bonhard DOT uklinux DOT net> <49A77D0A DOT 60501 AT cwilson DOT fastmail DOT fm> In-Reply-To: <49A77D0A.60501@cwilson.fastmail.fm> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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 Charles Wilson wrote: > Fergus wrote: >> Setup stalled: >> >> Fatal Error: Uncaught Exception >> Thread: DialogProc >> Type: 9Exception >> Message: Package validation failure for >> release/gdbm/gdbm-1.8.3-9-src.tar.bz2 >> AppErrNo: 1 >> >> Incidentally gdbm-1.8.3-20 installed perfectly well into [1.7]. > > Try a different mirror. I just checked the md5sum of my original copy > against the one on sourceware and the recorded md5sum value in > setup.ini, and they all match. LOL, we should probably catch the exception and display a nicer error message though. (In fact I thought we did; maybe something's broke.) But yeh, this is probably just a one-off bad download. Do you still have the corrupt file? Did it get truncated, is it completely garbled, or something else? cheers, DaveK -- 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/