***BOGO*** Re: setup.exe crashes on cygwin package upgrade

[Andrew Schulman <schulman.andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> setup.exe crashes when I try to upgrade cygwin to the newest version.
> 
> When I try to run setup.exe, it verifies no newer version exists, downloads the
> list of mirrors, and lets me choose packages, automatically marking those with
> newer versions available for an upgrade. So far, so good. But one of the
> packages which is updated frequently is cygwin, and setup crashes on any atempt
> to update this package. This happens even when no cygwin processes are running.
> 
> If I request the cygwin package to be left at the current version, all goes well.

(1) Bug reports for setup.exe should go to cygwin-apps:  see
http://cygwin.com/lists.html.

(2) For the likely solution, see
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2008-08/msg00218.html and its second response
(entire thread authored by me).

Andrew.


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