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RE: installation problem


Care to post it here for the archives?
	Igor

On Tue, 27 May 2003, vanloocm wrote:

> Thanks for your help but we've finally found what the problem was.
> Best regards.
> Melanie
>
> >===== Original Message From cygwin@cygwin.com =====
> >Hmm, these aren't the logs of the session when the crash happened.  If you
> >got them from the same directory as setup.exe, please attach the ones from
> >/var/log instead.  FYI, setup.log.full gets overwritten every time you run
> >setup, so if you have run setup since, please try to reproduce the crash
> >before you attach the log file.
> >
> >As for the OS [Operating System], I meant the version of Windows you're
> >running.
> >       Igor
> >
> >On Mon, 26 May 2003, vanloocm wrote:
> >
> >> Thanks for your reply.
> >>
> >> I've attached to this email the setup.log and setup.log.full
> >> files...do you think Mcafee antivirus is the problem? Could you give
> >> me the address of the OS to which you adviced me to send those files?
> >>
> >> Thank you again.
> >>
> >> Regards.
> >>
> >> Melanie.
> >>
> >>
> >> >===== Original Message From cygwin@cygwin.com =====
> >> >On Mon, 26 May 2003, vanloocm wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Hi,
> >> >>
> >> >> I've downloaded cygwin (from http://cygwin.com) and tried to install
> >> >> it but the installation do not work and I receive the following error
> >> >> message:
> >> >>
> >> >> The instruction memory at "0x0045f1b0" referenced memory at
> >> >> "0x00000000".  The memory could not de "written".
> >> >>
> >> >> Does anyone no what that means and what I should do.
> >> >>
> >> >> Thanks in advance.
> >> >> Melanie
> >> >
> >> >This means that there is most likely a bug in the version of setup that
> >> >you downloaded.  It might be a good idea if you mentioned the OS that this
> >> >happens on and posted your setup.log and setup.log.full (which can be
> >> >found in either the directory you ran setup from or /var/log, depending on
> >> >how far you've gotten).  It would probably make sense to post them
> >> >compressed.
> >> >
> >> >Another thing you might want to do is run the debug snapshot of setup.exe
> >> >and report where it crashes (if it does).  This would allow people to at
> >> >least match the crashing address to the function name.
> >> >       Igor

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