1.5.25-7: Update using setup.exe hangs at "Uninstalling... bash"

[Dave Korn]

On 17 January 2008 16:50, Wei Wang wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> Hope I have not missed anything in the list archive. I was doing a
> what I thought just a regular update with Cygwin setup. The first time
> I forgot to end my bash consoles, so setup complained that it could
> not overwrite some file related to bash. So I killed all my cygwin
> processes, which also killed setup. After that, I restarted setup but
> now it hangs every time when it hits uninstalling bash.
> 
> The Windows Task Manager shows that "Cygwin Setup" is "Not
> Responding". Everything else seems OK. No CPU usage spike or any such
> abnormality.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help.

  Do you see any error message when you run "zcat /etc/setup/bash.gz.lst", or
just a list of files?

    cheers,
      DaveK
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