this is some debugging information about the crash... it happens during uninstalling of previous bash package. no other package needed to be upgraded. the machine is a ibm lenovo R60 running windows XP.
Mario [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gdb ./Desktop/setup-debug-2.578.exe GNU gdb 6.5.50.20060706-cvs (cygwin-special) Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-cygwin"... (gdb) run Starting program: /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Mario Frasca/Bureaublad/\ setup-debug-2.578.exe Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/ntdll.dll Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/kernel32.dll Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/msvcrt.dll Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/advapi32.dll Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/rpcrt4.dll Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/WinSxS/X86_Microsoft.Windows.Common-Co\ ntrols_6595b64144ccf1df_6.0.2600.2982_x-ww_ac3f9c03/comctl32.dll Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/gdi32.dll Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/user32.dll Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/shlwapi.dll Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/ole32.dll Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/shell32.dll Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/wsock32.dll Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/ws2_32.dll Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/ws2help.dll warning: LOG: 2 Starting cygwin install, version 2.578 warning: LOG: 2 Current Directory: C:\Downloaded warning: LOG: 2 Changing gid to Users warning: LOG: 2 Could not open service McShield for query, start and stop. Mc\ Afee may not be installed, or we don't have access. warning: LOG: 2 source: network install warning: LOG: 2 root: C:\cygwin binary system warning: LOG: 2 Selected local directory: C:\Downloaded warning: LOG: 2 net: Direct warning: LOG: 1 Loaded cached mirror list warning: LOG: 1 get_url_to_membuf http://cygwin.com/mirrors.lst warning: LOG: 1 getUrlToStream http://cygwin.com/mirrors.lst warning: LOG: 2 site: http://bo.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/sourceware.org/cygwin warning: LOG: 1 get_url_to_membuf http://bo.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/sourceware\ .org/cygwin/setup.bz2 warning: LOG: 1 getUrlToStream http://bo.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/sourceware.or\ g/cygwin/setup.bz2 warning: .ini setup_version is 2.573.2.2, our setup_version is 2.578 warning: LOG: 1 get_url_to_file http://bo.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/sourceware.o\ rg/cygwin/release/bash/bash-3.2.25-16.tar.bz2 C:\Downloaded/http%3a%2f%2fbo.m\ irror.garr.it%2fmirrors%2fsourceware.org%2fcygwin/release/bash/bash-3.2.25-16\ .tar.bz2.tmp warning: LOG: 2 Downloaded C:\Downloaded/http%3a%2f%2fbo.mirror.garr.it%2fmir\ rors%2fsourceware.org%2fcygwin/release/bash/bash-3.2.25-16.tar.bz2 warning: LOG: 1 Checking MD5 for file://C:\Downloaded/http%3a%2f%2fbo.mirror.\ garr.it%2fmirrors%2fsourceware.org%2fcygwin/release/bash/bash-3.2.25-16.tar.b\ z2 warning: LOG: 1 MD5 verified OK: file://C:\Downloaded/http%3a%2f%2fbo.mirror.\ garr.it%2fmirrors%2fsourceware.org%2fcygwin/release/bash/bash-3.2.25-16.tar.b\ z2 31c89f8ab16f9ba110aead986cc7d70c warning: LOG: 2 Running preremove script for bash warning: LOG: 2 Uninstalling bash Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to thread 5784.0x1090] 0x004ace23 in _Unwind_SjLj_RaiseException () at /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-mingw32/3.4.4/include/c++/iostream:77 77 /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-mingw32/3.4.4/include/c++/iostream: No such file or \ directory. in /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-mingw32/3.4.4/include/c++/iostream Current language: auto; currently c++ (gdb) backtrace #0 0x004ace23 in _Unwind_SjLj_RaiseException () at /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-mingw32/3.4.4/include/c++/iostream:77 #1 0x004a3635 in __cxa_throw () at /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-mingw32/3.4.4/include/c++/iostream:77 #2 0x004a57d8 in std::__throw_logic_error () at /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-mingw32/3.4.4/include/c++/iostream:77 #3 0x004d1c98 in std::string::_S_construct<char const*> () at /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-mingw32/3.4.4/include/c++/bits/stl_vector.h:375 #4 0x004d4216 in std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::alloca\ tor<char> >::basic_string () at /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-mingw32/3.4.4/include/c++/bits/basic_string.h:198 #5 0x0040c3c6 in cygpackage::getfirstfile (this=0x3e9d48) at /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-mingw32/3.4.4/include/c++/ext/new_allocator.h:62 #6 0x004596fb in packageversion::getfirstfile (this=0x215ff38) at ../package_version.cc:174 #7 0x00456e8b in packagemeta::uninstall (this=0x3e9c58) at ../package_meta.cc:153 #8 0x00429b84 in Installer::uninstallOne (this=0x235fbc4, [EMAIL PROTECTED]) at ../install.cc:156 #9 0x004302c5 in do_install_reflector (p=0x215ff38) at /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-mingw32/3.4.4/include/c++/bits/stl_iterator.h:614 #10 0x7c80b683 in KERNEL32!GetModuleFileNameA () from /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/kernel32.dll #11 0x0050a4b0 in std::__ioinit () #12 0x77e83020 in HT_Get8BPPMaskPalette () from /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/gdi32.dll #13 0x00000000 in ?? 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