RE: Problem with setup (maybe a feature request)

2010-01-05 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Rance Hall sent the following at Tuesday, January 05, 2010 10:13 AM > >I'm running cygwin 1.7.x and I've been pretty faithful with running >setup again when updates are announced. > >I've noticed that setup remembers almost all the answers from the >previous run, so if you are just doing an update

Problem with setup (maybe a feature request)

2010-01-05 Thread Rance Hall
I'm running cygwin 1.7.x and I've been pretty faithful with running setup again when updates are announced. I've noticed that setup remembers almost all the answers from the previous run, so if you are just doing an update you should be able to just "NEXT" through it. The very last page of the se

RE: problem with setup

2008-02-06 Thread Igor Peshansky
in.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>. Thanks. > Asunto: Re: problem with setup > > > *cough* > > just a thought... but cant you simply as administrator or some other > > form of admin simply kill your cygwin isntall directory and remove the > > Cygwin registry keys? > &g

RE: problem with setup

2008-02-05 Thread Pedro MacanĂ¡s
febrero de 2008 6:08 Para: cygwin@cygwin.com Asunto: Re: problem with setup *cough* just a thought... but cant you simply as administrator or some other form of admin simply kill your cygwin isntall directory and remove the Cygwin registry keys? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml

Re: problem with setup

2008-02-05 Thread Morgan gangwere
*cough* just a thought... but cant you simply as administrator or some other form of admin simply kill your cygwin isntall directory and remove the Cygwin registry keys? -- Morgan Gangwere " if i cant sudo apt-get install life, then why should i need it?" -- Unsubscribe info: http://cy

Re: problem with setup

2008-02-05 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Amadeus W.M. wrote: On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 20:59:11 -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Warren Young wrote: Amadeus W.M. wrote: Is there a way to completely remove cygwin as if it was never there? http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all Might be worth trying to delete (or mo

Re: problem with setup

2008-02-05 Thread Amadeus W.M.
On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 20:59:11 -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Warren Young wrote: >> Amadeus W.M. wrote: >>> >>> Is there a way to completely remove cygwin as if it was never there? >> >> http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all > > Might be worth trying to delete (or move

Re: problem with setup

2008-02-05 Thread Amadeus W.M.
On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:06:52 -0700, Warren Young wrote: > Amadeus W.M. wrote: >> >> Is there a way to completely remove cygwin as if it was never there? > > http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all Thanks! That should do. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#uns

Re: problem with setup

2008-02-05 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Warren Young wrote: Amadeus W.M. wrote: Is there a way to completely remove cygwin as if it was never there? http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all Might be worth trying to delete (or move aside) '/etc/setup/bash.lst.gz' first. If that doesn't help, you might be stuc

Re: problem with setup

2008-02-05 Thread Warren Young
Amadeus W.M. wrote: Is there a way to completely remove cygwin as if it was never there? http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

problem with setup

2008-02-05 Thread Amadeus W.M.
I am (was) running cygwin under XP at work. It was installed a while back by IT. Everything gets done through IT. They are primarily windows people and they left out some important packages like man and others. So I asked them to reinstall. I can't install the missing packages myself, they have

Re: Problem with setup

2004-11-17 Thread Bobby McNulty
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 11:09:26AM +1100, Luke Kendall wrote: Sorry to be causing you such hassles. I'm hoping to get a chance to try the latest Cygwin: You can try the latest cygwin. Just install everything in two or three steps. This is not the final solution,

Re: Problem with setup

2004-11-17 Thread Brian Dessent
Luke Kendall wrote: > > > I can confirm this. We took a snapshot of October 26th > > > (setup-timestamp: 1098732614), and in that version of setup, > > > > That number you quoted identifies the version of the setup.ini datafile, not > > the setup.exe program. > > Sorry, how's this? > $ bunzip2

Re: Problem with setup

2004-11-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 11:09:26AM +1100, Luke Kendall wrote: >Sorry to be causing you such hassles. I'm hoping to get a chance to >try the latest Cygwin: You can try the latest cygwin. Just install everything in two or three steps. This is not the final solution, of course, but this problem do

Re: Problem with setup

2004-11-17 Thread Luke Kendall
On 17 Nov, Max Bowsher wrote: > Luke Kendall wrote: > > I should also add that after a setup.exe crash at 9:38am after being > > left running overnight, later attempts to install that day (with the VM > > size steadily increasing, and setup.exe appearing to "stick" at the > > stage where it is ins

Re: Problem with setup

2004-11-17 Thread Bobby McNulty
Max Bowsher wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11 Nov, Bobby McNulty wrote: Guys, theres a major problem with setup. According to the error I just got, setup is not closing any of its files after writing them. I finally got past xorg, and got up to update_info. I'll rerun setup to

Re: Problem with setup

2004-11-17 Thread Bobby McNulty
Luke Kendall wrote: On 16 Nov, Bobby McNulty wrote: Then I'm not the only one noticing this? No, myself and one other person here have begun noticing it. luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documenta

Re: Problem with setup

2004-11-17 Thread Max Bowsher
Luke Kendall wrote: On 17 Nov, To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The system starts page faulting and the number of handles just grows and grows, and eventually setup dies I can add this: At the crash point, setup.exe has some 600 open handles and 2 Gb of VM. It's accumulated 2.5 million page faults.

Re: Problem with setup

2004-11-17 Thread Max Bowsher
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11 Nov, Bobby McNulty wrote: Guys, theres a major problem with setup. According to the error I just got, setup is not closing any of its files after writing them. I finally got past xorg, and got up to update_info. I'll rerun setup to get a cygcheck. I can co

Re: Problem with setup

2004-11-17 Thread Max Bowsher
Luke Kendall wrote: I should also add that after a setup.exe crash at 9:38am after being left running overnight, later attempts to install that day (with the VM size steadily increasing, and setup.exe appearing to "stick" at the stage where it is installing the zip package), that setup.log was not

Re: Problem with setup

2004-11-16 Thread Luke Kendall
On 16 Nov, Bobby McNulty wrote: > Then I'm not the only one noticing this? No, myself and one other person here have begun noticing it. luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://

Re: Problem with setup

2004-11-16 Thread Bobby McNulty
Luke Kendall wrote: On 17 Nov, To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The system starts page faulting and the number of handles just grows and grows, and eventually setup dies I can add this: At the crash point, setup.exe has some 600 open handles and 2 Gb of VM. It's accumulated 2.5 million pa

Re: Problem with setup

2004-11-16 Thread Luke Kendall
I should also add that after a setup.exe crash at 9:38am after being left running overnight, later attempts to install that day (with the VM size steadily increasing, and setup.exe appearing to "stick" at the stage where it is installing the zip package), that setup.log was not updated by the later

Re: Problem with setup

2004-11-16 Thread Luke Kendall
On 17 Nov, To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The system starts page faulting and the number of > handles just grows and grows, and eventually setup dies I can add this: > At the crash point, setup.exe has some 600 open handles and 2 Gb of VM. It's > accumulated 2.5 million page faults. luke

Re: Problem with setup

2004-11-16 Thread luke . kendall
On 11 Nov, Bobby McNulty wrote: > Guys, theres a major problem with setup. > According to the error I just got, setup is not > closing any of its files after writing them. > I finally got past xorg, and got up to update_info. > I'll rerun setup to get a cygcheck. I c

Re: Problem with setup

2004-11-11 Thread Bobby McNulty
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 05:26:34PM -0600, Bobby McNulty wrote: Guys, theres a major problem with setup. According to the error I just got, setup is not closing any of its files after writing them. I finally got past xorg, and got up to update_info. I'll rerun set

Re: Problem with setup

2004-11-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 05:26:34PM -0600, Bobby McNulty wrote: >Guys, theres a major problem with setup. >According to the error I just got, setup is not >closing any of its files after writing them. >I finally got past xorg, and got up to update_info. >I'll rerun setup to

Problem with setup

2004-11-11 Thread Bobby McNulty
Guys, theres a major problem with setup. According to the error I just got, setup is not closing any of its files after writing them. I finally got past xorg, and got up to update_info. I'll rerun setup to get a cygcheck. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Pr

Problem with setup 2.427 under Windows 2000

2004-08-31 Thread Patrick Jones
Hi all. I am attempting to run setup.exe, version 2.427 under Windows 2000 Professional on a Toshiba laptop. After making all the setup option selections, the setup fails, with a dialog window saying 'setup.exe has been terminated by Windows. You will need to restart the program'. The first tim

RE: Problem with setup

2002-05-11 Thread Robert Collins
There is a new version that you can use. Just download it again. Rob > -Original Message- > From: Dimitris Zygiridis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 2:08 PM > To: Cygwin mailing list > Subject: Problem with setup > > > Hello > I

Problem with setup

2002-05-11 Thread Dimitris Zygiridis
Hello I use the latest version of setup.exe (2.194.2.24) and for the past days it terminates abnormally when I try to use it. When it tries to download setup.ini and reaches about 98000 bytes, Windows reports that setup.exe caused an error and should be terminated. I have used setup.e