Hi; sorry for the delay. I used setup 2.909 today to install maybe 100 libraries, and it gave me no problems. Thanks!
On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 9:41 AM Jon Turney <jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk> wrote: > On 14/07/2021 21:06, Philip Goetz via Cygwin wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 2:57 PM Philip Goetz <philgo...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >> On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 9:10 AM Jon Turney wrote: > >>> > >>> On 13/07/2021 20:30, Philip Goetz via Cygwin wrote: > >> ... > >>>> I change display mode from Pending to Category, and start clicking > >>>> through the category tree selecting packages. > >>>> But every time I click on something in the cygwin setup window, or > >>>> scroll the window, there's maybe 1 chance in 10 that setup-x86_64.exe > >>>> will terminate. > >> > >> ... > >> > >>>> I'd like to try using an older Cygwin installer, but I didn't find > >>>> links to older versions on cygwin.com. > >>> > >>> You can find older version of setup at https://cygwin.com/setup/ > >> > >> Thank you! I tried setup-2.905.x86_64.exe and setup-2.907.x86_64.exe, > >> and neither gave me any problems! > > > > I spoke too soon. I just ran setup-2.907.x86_64.exe again, to install > > some more programs, and it did the same thing. > > But I spent a long time in 2.905 without it crashing. > > Thanks to the reproduction steps, I was able to (finally) develop some > useful information about this crash, and that is consistent with where I > think the problem was introduced. > > I've built setup 2.909 with a putative fix for this. > > Perhaps you could try that and see if it improves things for you? > > Thanks. > -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
