On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 9:05 PM, t...@panix.com wrote:
On Sat, 14 Mar 2009, Mirko Vukovic
barely.remembered-in.t...@to.munge.this wrote:
After (actually during) my last cygwin update, the installation
procedure crashes when setup tries to uninstall xorg-server. I am
running on windows XP
Is the crash something like a window popping up saying that
setup.exe has encountered errors and must be terminated? If so: I
recently posted a screed when I got hit by that.
Exactly. I should have been more explicit.
Now when I restart setup (using `install from local directory'), it
crashes once the MD5's have been checke. It crashes when setup tries
to uninstall xorg-server. This is the first package that is being
uninstalled.
I then get two types of crashes - I have not been able to figure out
under what circumstances one or the other type happens.
In one, a window `MS Visual C++ Runtime Library' `Runtime Error' to
the effect taht setup.exe has requested Runtime to terminate it ina an
unusual way.
In another, I get `setup.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close ...'
But see below for good news
I have updated to the latest setup.exe (2.573.2.3), and rebooted. I
do not see any x-processes in either task manager or windows
services. What are my other options other than a complete
re-install? (I looked to see if I could manually remove the
package, but I did not see any posts on that). I also tried hiding
bash.lst.gz, but that did not help.
Experts, would it help, or at least not hurt, to hide
xorg-server.lst.gz? I would think that hiding bash.lst.gz would help
only if it crashed updating bash, not xorg-server.
Your comment made me look at xorg-server.lst.gz. That file was
probably corrupt (zless could not read it). Once I removed
xorg-server.lst.gz, I was able to complete the installation.
Thanks
Mirko
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