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Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2010 21:04:42 -0400
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Subject: Re: How to evaluate cygwin state after interrupted update - and how to recover/resume?
From: Mirko Vukovic <mirko DOT vukovic AT gmail DOT com>
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On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin)
<reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:
> On 10/2/2010 6:03 PM, Mirko Vukovic wrote:
>>
>> Hello
>>
>> I was installing a new package (aspell) and the latest updates. =A0After
>> the file download, the obsolete packages were removed. =A0Then the
>> installation step started. =A0During iirc aspell's installation, I got
>> an error prompt from rapapp.exe (c++ error), after which the
>> installation procedure stalled. =A0I canceled the installation (cancel)
>> button after waiting 10-15 minutes.
>>
>> How can I evaluate cygwin's state, and the state of the updates. =A0How
>> do I recover/resume the update?
>
> Rerun 'setup.exe'. =A0You'll have to re-select the packages you want to
> install though. =A0Sounds like you want to uninstall BlackICE for the
> duration of the install though so that it doesn't get in the way.
>
>
Thanks Larry,

but what about the packages that were deleted because they were being
updated to the newest version?

In other words,
 - I selected aspell for install
 - A bunch of other packages were auto-selected for updates.
 - All packages were downloaded

So, after the downloads
 - the obsolete packages were removed
 - aspell install started
 - ... and the crash happened.

I have not executed setup yet because I did not want to mess up any
history files
(if there are any - I did not see anything relevant in /var/logs)

Mirko

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