Martin Magnusson wrote: > I have used Cygwin for a few months now. I'm trying to reinstall it > with a couple of extra packages, but I've run into serious trouble. > > Downloading seems to work fine, but while installing setup just hangs, > randomly (with no error message). When looking at setup.log I see a > lot of calls to compress_bz::error. Is that normal?
Yes. The compress_bz class lacks any error handling. That log message is basically a loud fixme. Please describe exactly where setup hangs. Does it hang if you download only first, and then re-run setup, choosing "install from local directory"? Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/