That is right on the money. It was zero length, and I did get
it from mirrors.rcn.net. I also downloaded the older 2.xx4xx
file, and it must have somehow installed that instead when
I ran setup again and installed only mingw.
-Peter
Ashok Vadekar wrote:
>
> I saw this too, but only from mirrors.rcn.net. Other sites had an older
> setup.ini file that did NOT include the version of wingw that was causing the
> crash. The problem seems to be that the new install file
> (mingw-20010917.tar.gz) is a zero length file. I suppose that setup
> fails becuase it cannot unzip it. Why it is zero length is a server issue
> I suspect, not setup's fault. Setup might do a bit more error checking, but
> hey, you get far more than you pay for with cygwin, so you can't really
> complain, can you.
>
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 12:25:40PM -0400, Peter Buckley wrote:
> > I didn't see anything in the archives when I searched
> > via google with "setup.exe violation" "mingw setup"
> > "mingw violation" etc.
> >
> > I am on NT4 SP6 and I just downloaded setup.exe 2.78.2.9
> > from cygwin.com. I downloaded all the files and then
> > I tried to install from local directory, for "all users/unix".
> > Whoops, I had a bash window open, so I had to cancel setup
> > and close the window and try again.
> >
> > I got this error when it tries to install the mingw 20010917-1 package-
> >
> > An application error has occurred, and an application error log is being
> > generated.
> > setup.exe
> > Exception: access violation (0x0000005), Address: 0x77f6ce4c
> >
> > So the solution was to "skip" mingw, install all the other packages,
> > then uninstall mingw, then install mingw.
> >
> > I don't have a problem, I just thought it might be interesting for
> > anyone else who was as silly as me and left bash running while updating
> > cygwin.
> >
> > -Peter
> >
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