Re: Corrected: setup.exe beta (testing needed - really!)

["Max Bowsher" <maxb at ukf dot net>]

Rolf Campbell wrote:
> Robert Collins wrote:
>> A new release of setup.exe is imminent. There are many changes, and to
>> reduce problems, feedback from YOU, is needed.
>>
>> The new version is available from
>> http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/setup-2.340.2.3.exe (binary) and
>> http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/setup-2.340.2.3.tar.bz2 (source).
>>
>> Pending any regressions being discovered, this release will become the
>> production release in ~1 weeks time.
>
> I just tried to run it on my home XP machine, and it consistantly
> crashes on startup.  I ran it in gdb:
> (gdb) run
> Starting program: /c/Download/Programming/CygWin/setup-2.340.2.3.exe
> warning: LOG: 2 Starting cygwin install, version 2.340.2.3
> warning: LOG: 2 Current Directory: C:\Download\Programming\CygWin
>
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x78403330 in ?? ()
> (gdb) list *0x78403330
> No symbol table is loaded.  Use the "file" command.
> (gdb) back
> #0  0x78403330 in ?? ()
> #1  0x00425167 in ?? ()
> #2  0x00456013 in ?? ()
> #3  0x00401170 in ?? ()
> #4  0x00401013 in ?? ()
> #5  0x77e7eb69 in KERNEL32!CreateProcessInternalW () from
> /c/WINNT/system32/kernel32.dll
>
> Can you make a version available with debug symbols, or is that
> traceback good enough?

The addresses are exactly identical to the crash I have been reproducing
(though never under gdb, and not consistently, and on only one of my
machines). See my recent posting on cygwin-apps for a partial decode. I'm
about to try Robert's suggestion for getting more info.


Max.


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