> On Apr 19, 2018, at 11:31 AM, Ulli Horlacher wrote: > > I have an update script which calls "setup-x86 --quiet-mode". > So far, this works great, but now it tries to install a new mintty.exe, > but one mintty still running (where I started setup-x86), so setup-x86 > kills this process... and setup-x86.exe is killed, too, which resulted in > a damaged cygwin installation :-( > > I was able to fix it by running setup-x86.exe via Windows Explorer (puhhhh!). > > How can I avoid this kind of problem in the future? > > I tried it with: > > setup-x86 --quiet-mode & > sleep 1 > kill -9 $PPID > > But setup-x86 was killed again, too.
The way you fixed it already — don't run setup under mintty (or dash or …). Setup is not a cygwin program (it's not linked to cygwin1.dll). It's safest to have all of your cygwin processes stopped when you run setup, anyway, to prevent problems just like this. -- 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
