Setup fails with 1.7 upgrade attempt -- CLOSING OUT.

2010-03-02 Thread chethcoat
> I can find no direct information on this problem anywhere, so now > I'm writing you. My computer is an Intel Pentium(R) 4, 3.4 Ghz and > 1GB RAM. The OS is MS Windows XP 2002, SP2. I've been happily > running Cygwin for 8 years, and it looks like it's time to upgrade > to Cygwin 1.7. > I su

Re: Setup fails with 1.7 upgrade attempt

2010-03-02 Thread Csaba Raduly
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 9:39 PM, wrote: > $ wget -S http://www.tug.org > $ Try it with wget -d -S http://www.tug.org (if cygcheck reports no missing DLL) -- Life is complex, with real and imaginary parts -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://

Re: Setup fails with 1.7 upgrade attempt

2010-03-01 Thread Dave Korn
On 01/03/2010 20:39, chethc...@oplink wrote: [ missed one thing in my earlier response: ] > Does setup.exe use wget? Nope, that was the point; try and factor setup.exe out of the equation and see if your problem is with that or in the network. cheers, DaveK -- Problem reports:

Re: Setup fails with 1.7 upgrade attempt

2010-03-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
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 s

Re: Setup fails with 1.7 upgrade attempt

2010-03-01 Thread Dave Korn
On 01/03/2010 20:39, chethc...@oplink wrote: > 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. Absolutely not, no way. You have a very serious network problem. Probably a bad proxy server. E

Re: Setup fails with 1.7 upgrade attempt

2010-03-01 Thread chethcoat
> 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 th

Re: Setup fails with 1.7 upgrade attempt

2010-03-01 Thread Dave Korn
On 01/03/2010 18:18, chethc...@oplink wrote: > One irritating note: There is no way I can figure out to get > setup.exe tell me what version of Cygwin it thinks it's installing. > How can I verify that the current setup program on the Cygwin web page > is for 1.7 and not 1.5? If it's "setup.ex

Setup fails with 1.7 upgrade attempt

2010-03-01 Thread chethcoat
I can find no direct information on this problem anywhere, so now I'm writing you. My computer is an Intel Pentium(R) 4, 3.4 Ghz and 1GB RAM. The OS is MS Windows XP 2002, SP2. I've been happily running Cygwin for 8 years, and it looks like it's time to upgrade to Cygwin 1.7. I suddenly cannot