RE: setup crashes trying to install xorg-x11-fnts: Solved

2006-01-15 Thread Iain Alexander
I had a setup.ini from ftp://ftp.kr.freebsd.org/pub/cygwin dated 15 Oct 2004 which for some reason has a bogus size and md5 for xorg-x11-fenc-6.8.1.0-2.tar.bz2 and xorg-x11-fnts- 6.8.1.0-3.tar.bz2. At that time I didn't attempt to install any X11. I have recently been using ftp://ftp.mirror.a

RE: setup crashes trying to install xorg-x11-fnts

2006-01-11 Thread Iain Alexander
On 11 Jan 2006 at 11:14, Dave Korn wrote: > This is that same old bogus-size-check-failure-throwing-uncaught-exception > problem, I think. > > It's generally worked-around by deleting the package from your downloaded > packages dir and trying again. As I said last week, in Message-ID: <[EMAIL

Re: setup crashes trying to install xorg-x11-fnts

2006-01-11 Thread David Rothenberger
On 1/11/2006 3:14 AM, Dave Korn wrote: David Rothenberger wrote: On 1/10/2006 10:00 PM, David Rothenberger wrote: On 1/10/2006 8:28 PM, Igor Peshansky wrote: On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, David Rothenberger wrote: Any ideas how to fix this? Here's the backtrace. I haven't had a chance to do any deb

RE: setup crashes trying to install xorg-x11-fnts

2006-01-11 Thread Dave Korn
David Rothenberger wrote: > On 1/10/2006 10:00 PM, David Rothenberger wrote: >> On 1/10/2006 8:28 PM, Igor Peshansky wrote: >>> On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, David Rothenberger wrote: Any ideas how to fix this? > Here's the backtrace. I haven't had a chance to do any debugging yet, > though. > > #0

Re: setup crashes trying to install xorg-x11-fnts

2006-01-11 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 11:28:31PM -0500, Igor Peshansky wrote: > If nothing works, however, you can do the following: > > 1. Download release/X11/xorg-x11-fnts/xorg-x11-fnts-6.8.1.0-3.tar.bz2 from > some mirror (I use mirrors.kernel.org with good results). > 2. cd / && tar xjf xorg-x11-fnts-6.8.1

Re: setup crashes trying to install xorg-x11-fnts

2006-01-10 Thread David Rothenberger
On 1/10/2006 10:00 PM, David Rothenberger wrote: On 1/10/2006 8:28 PM, Igor Peshansky wrote: On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, David Rothenberger wrote: Any ideas how to fix this? It would be best if we found why setup doesn't work for you (whatever it does, it shouldn't crash). It could be triggered by

Re: setup crashes trying to install xorg-x11-fnts

2006-01-10 Thread David Rothenberger
On 1/10/2006 8:28 PM, Igor Peshansky wrote: On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, David Rothenberger wrote: Setup is crashing for me (Windows "unexpected error" window) when I try to reinstall xorg-x11-fnts. Tsk, tsk, tsk. Which setup version? Which OS? Which version of xorg-x11-fnts are you trying to rein

Re: setup crashes trying to install xorg-x11-fnts

2006-01-10 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, David Rothenberger wrote: > Setup is crashing for me (Windows "unexpected error" window) when I try > to reinstall xorg-x11-fnts. Tsk, tsk, tsk. Which setup version? Which OS? Which version of xorg-x11-fnts are you trying to reinstall? Which mirror are you using? Are you

Re: setup crashes

2004-05-05 Thread user
--- > Have you got setup.ini as well as setup.exe in d:\cygkit\? > You'll need it. Yes, I have it... but setup.exe 2.427 crashes again. I think that the problem may be a corrupted package because setup did not complete the MD5 checking. Now I have just deleted xorg-x11-bin and i

Re: setup crashes

2004-05-05 Thread fergus
Have you got setup.ini as well as setup.exe in d:\cygkit\? You'll need it. Fergus -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/f

Re: setup crashes

2004-01-30 Thread Robert Collins
On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 11:20, james pentland wrote: > i want to compile setup 2.415-1 so i can debug it, > since it crashes nearly every time i use it. > make wants a file RECTWrapper.h, which is missing from > the distribution. > where should i find it? You can download it from the setup-snapshot

Re: setup crashes

2004-01-02 Thread Larry Hall
At 02:17 PM 1/2/2004, james pentland you wrote: >Setup.exe version 2.416 > >Setup fails almost always to install from my local >cygwin archive. > >in each case the crash occurs during the install step > checking MD5 for _update-info-dir-00221-1 >this is the first procedure after the Select Packag

RE: setup crashes on certain packages.

2003-12-13 Thread Joaquin
und it. I think you need this setup.ini. That is my guess. I never did an install without it. - Joaquin > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthew Wilson > Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 6:42 AM > To: Cygwin List >

Re: setup crashes on certain packages.

2003-12-12 Thread Brian Ford
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Matthew Wilson wrote: > I am using setup version 2.416. The problem is when I try to install > certain packages (all from my local directory), the installer just > crashes. > > The packages that have caused this crash include perl, python, and > XFree86-base. > IIRC, these ar

Re: setup crashes on certain packages.

2003-12-12 Thread Matthew Wilson
I am using setup version 2.416. The problem is when I try to install certain packages (all from my local directory), the installer just crashes. The packages that have caused this crash include perl, python, and XFree86-base. Does anyone have any experience with this? On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 0

Re: setup crashes on certain packages.

2003-12-11 Thread Matthew Wilson
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 05:40:49PM -0500, Larry Hall wrote: > I expect it would be helpful to know what version of setup you're running. Sorry - I should have mentioned that. I am running the most recent version, whatever that is. I reran the wget script to grab everything off the mirrors before

Re: setup crashes on certain packages.

2003-12-11 Thread Larry Hall
At 06:09 PM 12/11/2003, Matthew Wilson you wrote: >Hi - > >I have cygwin installed OK on my windows XP machine. I installed from a local >directory after running wget to grab everything I thought I would need. I >want to add perl to my cygwin environment, so I ran setup.exe again, watched >all th

Re: setup crashes after checking md5 for gcc...

2003-09-04 Thread Max Bowsher
Stumpe, Robert wrote: > it`s my first time using cygwin; > at first i found an older installer (v2.249.2.5) and some packages on a > drive > in our lan; so i tried it with the old one installer and it works... > after using cygwin i recognized, that a compiler is missing and > so i downloaded hardl

Re: setup crashes after checking md5 for gcc...

2003-09-01 Thread Stumpe, Robert
after i delete the folder gcc(with gcc-package) the installer works right. now i have a running cygwin but without gcc :-( -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html F