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RE: cygwins setup hangs in installation
- From: "Brett Serkez" <techie at serkez dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:43:50 -0500
- Subject: RE: cygwins setup hangs in installation
>> I DON'T have a hyperthreaded processor, and still see hangs with the
>> current stable version of setup.exe (v. 2.510.2.2) It hangs
>> indefinitely during update-info-dir.sh. My computer is a Pentium-M
>> 1.4GHz, 760MB RAM.
>
>This is a known bug (which is known to have nothing to do with
>hyperthreading)...
>
>> The good news: setup.exe does work fine if I use one of the unstable
>> versions (v. 2.523) Then I get no hang and everything seems fine.
>
>...which is fixed in CVS (but it's good to know it's fixed)...
Looks like setup 2.510.2.2 is still the current version. Does anyone
know when a fixed version of setup will be released that doesn't hang in
update-info-dir.sh?
Brett
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Brett C. Serkez, Techie
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