Re: Strange problem running Cygwin installer

2014-12-22 Thread David Stacey
On 22/12/14 17:39, Marco Atzeri wrote: The heuristic approach seems a bit crap to me It must be contagious. The site I was working at today uses McAfee Web Gateway, and this was blocking nearly all of our 'debuginfo' packages using a similar heuristic. I'll report this as soon as I am able.

Re: Strange problem running Cygwin installer

2014-12-22 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 12/22/2014 12:28 PM, John Lynchehaun wrote: Hi, Hi John, I have never previously experienced Symantec anti-virus causing a problem of any kind with Cygwin; it has always correctly identified the source of the installer. I am using the latest version (as of this morning) of Nortons and it's

Re: Strange problem running Cygwin installer

2014-12-22 Thread John Lynchehaun
Hi, I have experienced a similar problem with downloading the 32-bit installer. I have just attempted to download the setup-x86.exe file from cygwin.com; I have attempted this on both a Windows XP SP3 machine (yes I know) and a Windows 7 Pro SP1 machine. In both cases Symantec's Norton Interne

Re: Strange problem running Cygwin installer

2014-12-17 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Kevin Van Horn! > 3. Nothing in the anti-virus logs. Scanned, no virus found. Problem still > occurred with the anti-virus software (Symantec) turned off. It is not enough to turn it off. Symantec is known to cause Cygwin tools to misbehave. Actually, it "proudly" occupy one of the to

Re: Strange problem running Cygwin installer

2014-12-17 Thread David Stacey
On 17/12/14 18:15, Kevin Van Horn wrote: Thanks for the help. It turns out that rebooting the machine solved the problem, oddly enough. Pleased you managed to get it working, Dave. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Docume

RE: Strange problem running Cygwin installer

2014-12-17 Thread Kevin Van Horn
Mountain Time) -Original Message- From: David Stacey [mailto:drsta...@tiscali.co.uk] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 3:51 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Strange problem running Cygwin installer On 16/12/2014 21:44, Kevin Van Horn wrote: > I'm having an odd problem i

RE: Strange problem running Cygwin installer

2014-12-17 Thread Bob Doskuno
2014 3:17 PM >To: Kevin Van Horn; cygwin@cygwin.com >Subject: Re: Strange problem running Cygwin installer > >Greetings, Kevin Van Horn! > >> I'm having an odd problem installing Cygwin. After downloading the >> installer and double-clicking on it, and clicking &qu

RE: Strange problem running Cygwin installer

2014-12-16 Thread Kevin Van Horn
Thanks, Andrey. Unfortunately, I get exactly the same behavior when I use "run as administrator". -Original Message- From: Andrey Repin [mailto:anrdae...@yandex.ru] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 3:17 PM To: Kevin Van Horn; cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Strange problem runn

Re: Strange problem running Cygwin installer

2014-12-16 Thread David Stacey
On 16/12/2014 21:44, Kevin Van Horn wrote: I'm having an odd problem installing Cygwin. After downloading the installer and double-clicking on it, and clicking "Run" on the "Open File - Security Warning" popup dialog, I get the "busy" wheel for maybe 1 or two seconds, then it disappears and no

Re: Strange problem running Cygwin installer

2014-12-16 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Kevin Van Horn! > I'm having an odd problem installing Cygwin. After downloading the > installer and double-clicking on it, and clicking "Run" on the "Open File - > Security Warning" popup dialog, I get the "busy" wheel for maybe 1 or two > seconds, then it disappears and nothing else

Strange problem running Cygwin installer

2014-12-16 Thread Kevin Van Horn
I'm having an odd problem installing Cygwin. After downloading the installer and double-clicking on it, and clicking "Run" on the "Open File - Security Warning" popup dialog, I get the "busy" wheel for maybe 1 or two seconds, then it disappears and nothing else happens - no installer window, no