On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 02:39:31PM -0600, chethc...@oplink.net wrote: >> As to the main problem, hmmm. Maybe if you could run it under GDB >> we might get a better look at the error. > >You mean run setup.exe under GDB? Will try it shortly, but: > >> I was going to suggest you try a snapshot of setup.exe with debug >> information, but something appears to be wrong with the website, I >> couldn't find the setup snapshots anywhere. So try it with the one >> you've got anyway, maybe it'll show us something useful. > >> Also, do just verify that you aren't having some bizarre network >> problem or BLODA connecting. What do you see if you run "wget -S >> http://cygwin.com/mirrors.lst";; in a bash shell? > >First, using my browser to get to http://cygwin.com/mirrors.lst, I get >a "not found on this server" error. I think this file might be >elsewhere.
Then something is seriously wrong (assuming you didn't just include the quote mark when you tried it in your browser). >Second, you may be right about network issues. I've had a lot of >problems in the past keeping wget working due to constantly changing >proxies, security, etc. Anyway, right now, wget appears totally >nonfunctional. Here are a couple of lines copied off my Cygwin >terminal: > >$ wget -S http://www.tug.org >$ > >This test and others tell me that wget is getting nothing at all. >Does setup.exe use wget? No. setup.exe really can't use any cygwin programs or it wouldn't be able to bootstrap a cygwin installation. But, then, does "cygcheck /bin/wget.exe" show any missing DLLs? That could be the cause of non-response from wget. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
