At 02:17 PM 1/2/2004, james pentland you wrote: >Setup.exe version 2.416 > >Setup fails almost always to install from my local >cygwin archive. > >in each case the crash occurs during the install step > checking MD5 for _update-info-dir-00221-1 >this is the first procedure after the Select Packages >screen.
<snip> >i also have Setup.exe version 2.415. >this behaves in an almost identical fashion to 2.416, >although it crashes with a warning popup, as follows: > > Runtime error! > Program: F:\cygwin\setup.exe > abnormal program termination > You may want to investigate this issue with one of the setup snapshots at <http://cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/>. I don't really expect that 2.418 will solve the problem but it's worth trying. Also, you could try debugging setup with the debug snapshot version of 2.415, since you're seeing a crash with that. Just some ideas... -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/