What to do when setup fails?

[Luke Kendall]

On 11 Nov, luke wrote:
>  By the time it had crashed with the above panel, Task Manager was 
>  showing setup of using only 10MB of memory.  Yet as soon as I clicked 
>  on OK for the runtime error, the pages were very quickly handed back to 
>  the system and it returned to about 100MB of memory in use (no page 
>  faults).  So it sounds like setup.exe was the culprit. 
>   
>  This is an old version of setup.  I notice that my post-install stuff 
>  detected the problem of a failed install (symptom: missing /etc/profile 
>  file).  The sanest thing to do will be to reboot, and try installing a 
>  much more recent Cygwin. 
>   
>  If that fails, I'll scrub the installed files and reg keys, and try 
>  again. 

Hmm, using a mirror that's a few days old shows similar behaviour.
This time though it's saying it's installing zip-2.3-6 - all the other
details seem the same.

I watched in task manager as setup's memory use climbed from 50MB to
127MB over a period of a few minutes.  When next I looked nothing had
visibly changed, except task manager reckoned setup was now using only
12MB (again climbing steadily upwards at about 5MB per minute), even as
the Performance task manager view showed system memory use had climbed
to 880MB (and still climbing).

Sounds like the first attempted install, with the insufficient
permissions and the "Mount: command completed successfully" might have
left things in a somehow strange state.

I'll force a system disc check and reboot and try again.  Then scrub
Cygwin and try a fresh install if that's no better.

luke


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