RE: installation problem

[j m <junquemale at yahoo dot com>]

I think I may have fixed, or at least bypassed, my problem.  I didn't
understand the installation options and I was trying to install from disk
before anything had been downloaded.  When I install from Internet, everything
is fine.

Evan

--- j m <junquemale@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I am having a similar problem.  I'm using Win98SE.  This is my first ever
> installation of Cygwin, so I think I don't even have a /var/log yet.  When I
> run setup.exe, I accept the defaults of c:\cygwin, 'all users', and 'Unix
> text', and then it crashes (Illegal operation).
> 
> I also have McAfee AntiVirus installed.
> 
> How do I run the debug snapshot of cygwin you mentioned?
> 
> Thanks,
> Evan 
> 
> -----
>     * From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
>     * To: vanloocm <vanloocm at tcd dot ie>
>     * Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
>     * Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 11:19:10 -0400 (EDT)
>     * Subject: RE: installation problem
>     * Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot 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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