On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 10:46:57AM +0200, Arend Rensink wrote: > 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.
I would be looking very hard at whatever virus protection you have. The fact that the setup-*.exe is being removed makes me think some third party program is killing the installer and deleting the executable; that's just not something the installer will do. As a result, there's very little we can do on this list to help you. Normally I'd suggest looking at the setup.log file, but I very much doubt that will tell us anything other than that the installer suddenly stops running. The fact that other programs work fine doesn't really tell us anything -- the Cygwin installer does a bunch of things that aren't really very common in other Windows programs, namely downloading and extracting tarballs containing libraries and executable files. Adam -- 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
