On Sun, 8 Apr 2007, Igor Peshansky wrote: > On Sun, 8 Apr 2007, Greg Chicares wrote: > > > On 2007-4-8 14:45 UTC, Igor Peshansky wrote: > > > On Sun, 8 Apr 2007, Greg Chicares wrote: > > > > > >> I've run setup.exe numerous times this morning, and it segfaulted > > >> only once. I tried again, but couldn't reproduce the problem. > > [...] > > > It doesn't look like you're running the latest snapshot of setup -- please > > > try that (from <http://cygwin.com/setup/snapshots/>). > > [...] > > > If you can reproduce the crash with the latest snapshot, we could get a > > > more accurate diagnosis with addr2line. > > > > I followed the link you gave, and downloaded this file: > > http://cygwin.com/setup/snapshots/setup-2.562.exe > > It did not crash. It let me retrieve the package I wanted, then > > successfully updated that package: > > > > /cygdrive/c/cygwin-cache[0]$cygcheck -s -v -r |grep mingw-runtime > > mingw-runtime 3.11-1 > > /cygdrive/c/cygwin-cache[0]$./setup-2.562.exe > > /cygdrive/c/cygwin-cache[0]$cygcheck -s -v -r |grep mingw-runtime > > mingw-runtime 3.12-4 > > > > Let me point out two small things: > > > > (1) The initial screen says "Copyright 2000-2006"; should it say > > 2007 instead of 2006? > > Yep. Thanks. > > > (2) When I did "Download Without Installing" as a separate step to > > fetch this package, setup-2.562.exe terminated without showing the > > Cygwin Setup > > Download Complete > > OK > > messagebox I've grown accustomed to seeing. Is the lack of that > > messagebox a new feature? I mistook it for an abend; but, running > > it under gdb, everything looked okay even though the messagebox > > did not appear: > > > > /cygdrive/c/cygwin-cache[0]$gdb ./setup-2.562.exe > > GNU gdb 6.5.50.20060706-cvs (cygwin-special) > > [big snip] > > warning: .ini setup_version is 2.510.2.2, our setup_version is 2.562 > > warning: LOG: 2 note: Download Complete > > warning: LOG: 2 Ending cygwin install > > > > Program exited normally. > > (gdb) q > > Ah, the message box was indeed removed, and the final message was folded > into the screen that offered to create the desktop and start menu > shortcuts. However, what I missed was the fact that this screen is not > shown in download-only mode. Thanks for the report -- I'll fix this.
Ok, just to follow up. This is now fixed in CVS. The next setup snapshot (>2.568) will show installation status as part of the final dialog. Thanks again for testing. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Freedom is just another word for "nothing left to lose"... -- Janis Joplin -- 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/