I manually removed the rxvt entry from installed.db and run the setup to install/reinstall the rxvt without problem. What a strange setup error and a learning experience!! I was close to giving up on this segmentation fault error. ----- Original Message ----- From: ERIC HO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Saturday, September 1, 2007 10:56 am Subject: Re: Setup Error To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> I manually untared the cygwin, coreuils packages and got the > commands back. But I still cannot run the setup which gives me > segmentation fault when uninstalling rxvt. If there are no > other way for me to stop rxvt from uninstalling when running > setup, I guess I will have to live with manually installing the > new/update packages until I move to a new machine. Thanks. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: ERIC HO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Saturday, September 1, 2007 9:57 am > Subject: Re: Setup Error > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > > > I tried to reinstall the coreutils and cywin and it is getting > > worse because now many commands like ls, echo, uname, mount > and > > umount cannot be found. I cannot rename/delete the cygwin root > > folder. Any thing I can do manually to stop it from > uninstalling > > rxvt which causes the setup error or any work around solutions > > like unzipping the indivually packages? Is my only choice is > to > > delete the registry tree Software\Cygnus Solutions under > > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and/or HKEY_CURRENT_USER and reboot the > > machine for me to rename/delete cygwin root folder? It seems > > drastic. Thanks > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: ERIC HO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Friday, August 31, 2007 7:14 pm > > Subject: Re: Setup Error > > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > > > > > I did a gdb on setup and saw the following messages > when > > > uninstalling rxvt: > > > warning: LOG: 2 Running preremove script for rxvt > > > warning: LOG: 2 Uninstalling rxvt > > > > > > Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. > > > [Switching to thread 2648.0x1cc] > > > 0x004ac7e3 in ?? () > > > > > > Any idea? Thanks. > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: ERIC HO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Date: Friday, August 31, 2007 7:34 am > > > Subject: Setup Error > > > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > > > > > > > I'm running snapshot 2007-08-10. When I ran setup to > install > > > the > > > > new rxvt, it hang. I then canceled the install. Now > > everytime > > > I > > > > ran the setup again, it tries to uninstall rxvt. But then > > > setup > > > > encountered an error and closed. It seems some > > files/registers > > > > corrupted. Is ther anyway to workaround this > problem? > > > Any > > > > doc will help? The same problem with snapshot 2007-08-13. > I > > > did > > > > try rebooting the machine twice but to no avail. Thanks. -- 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/