X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <743993.76203.qm@web45109.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 21:53:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Max Offman Subject: setup.exe crash To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 In case someone else has this problem ... after many years of working w/o a= problem, setup.exe failed half way through an install leaving me with a bu= sted WIN XP cygwin. I removed several Windows updates that i thought might = have caused the problem but that didn't help. I tried my previous version o= f setup.exe and that crashed in the same manner. I then tried an even older= version (from 2005 w/ size of 298 KB) and that worked! Here is the diagnos= tic: -- 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/