Several problems upgrading cygwin & cygwin/x on Feb. 3-4 via kernel.org mirror

PREFACE On Feb. 3rd, I did an upgrade (simply downloaded the new setup.exe and ran it) which I thought was successful. I shut down X completely (with the exception of the X server) before starting the upgrade. During the upgrade, it complained about not being able to upgrade a file (I don't reca

Cygwin Bash Shell fails to start, because cygreadline6.dll was not found

Installation steps: 1) I removed the cygwin directory and all cygwin registry entries due to previous failed cygwin upgrade attempts. A description of those irrelevant problems can be found here: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-02/msg00062.html 2) I downloaded and ran setup version 2.57

Mirror Error: Setup.ini using http://mirrors.kernel.org/

Clean install with cygwin directory and registry entries deleted results in: Mirror Error: Setup.ini signature http://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin//setup.bz2.sig from http://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/ failed to verify. Possible corrupt mirror? Setup.ini rejected. Subsequent in