I've been a happy cygwin user for at least a decade, but starting this week I can't seem to update any more, and in fact my installation is broken entirely.
When I run (a freshly downloaded) setup-x86.exe, at some point during install the installer quits, the .exe-file is removed, and sometimes my computer reboots. No log file is created, but visually it seems as though this occurs somewhere around binutils - though that's not the culprit, I also tried to run after excluding binutils from the refresh and the same thing happens. The same sleo happened with a fresh install of the 64-bit version, as soon as I tried to go beyond the default installation (in fact, when I tried to get texlive installed). It seems as though this might be caused by some overzealous virus protection software on my computer, and I'm happy to look that way as well, but I've not experienced any similar problems either with other software or on other computers with essentially the same configuration. Any hints as to how to proceed? Somewhere a facility cygcheck is mentioned but in my broken installation I can't find that, might have been removed. Thanks in advance, -- Arend Rensink University of Twente http://www.cs.utwente.nl/~rensink -- 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
