I have seen both these crashes several times, but now am unable to reproduce them. Oh well.
- Jay > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: some setup problems > Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 08:34:25 +0000 > > > I have found the following bugs all this evening (despite years of not seeing > them :) ) > > 1) > Attempting to install Cygwin to the root of a drive causes setup to silently > exit. > I figured a stack overflow, but I tried running under a debugger and it > doesn't occur there. > Hm. It occurs on a "clean" install, but not generally otherwise. > I'll try again under a debugger. > > I know this isn't recommended. > But I get tired of constantly translating paths between Cygwin and Windows. > Windows accepts forward slashes often. > Therefore, if you install to the root, and you have just one drive letter, > no translation is needed. > > I had been using junctions to workaround but wasn't entirely satisfactory. > Due to the crash, well, I'm using junctions again, but differently. > > D:\cygwin>for /d %a in (*) do junction %a > > D:\cygwin\bin: JUNCTION > Substitute Name: D:\bin > > D:\cygwin\etc: JUNCTION > Substitute Name: D:\etc > > D:\cygwin\lib: JUNCTION > Substitute Name: D:\lib > > D:\cygwin\tmp: JUNCTION > Substitute Name: D:\tmp > > D:\cygwin\usr: JUNCTION > Substitute Name: D:\usr > > D:\cygwin\var: JUNCTION > Substitute Name: D:\var > > I do use /bin, but I will avoid clash. > Nothing else I have seen in many years uses /usr, /etc, /var, to these are > safe. > I have long used \dev2 instead of \dev due to that unfortunate use. > > 2) > Clicking on bash in setup causes setup to crash (unhandled exception). > I know this isn't useful -- I can't not install bash. > But it shouldn't crash setup. > > 3) > I have a "bunch" of packages locally. > I select "install from local directory". > I click "all" to change it to "install". > Yet still I am told one of the packages I am installing requires gcc-obj, do > I want to > install it? Given that I selected "install" on the "all" node, this shouldn't > happen. > > Running it under a debugger shows a debugprint as to why: > > : 1 Removing empty category KDELOG: 1 Removing empty category MailLOG: 1 > Removin > g empty category MingwLOG: 1 Removing empty category PublishingLOG: 1 > Removing e > mpty category SecurityLOG: 1 Removing empty category X11LOG: 2 Warning, the > defa > ult trust level for package does not meet this specification gcc-objcLOG: 2 > War > ning, the default trust level for package does not meet this specification > gcc- > objc > > 4) Somehow my package directory defaulted to d:\ instead of d:\net\cygwin > once. > I clicked next by accident. > There is no way in the gui to cancel the big directory walk -- have to kill > setup. > Could be due to running under a debugger? > > > - Jay -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
