setup-x86_64.exe crashes randomly on user interaction, too often to use

[Philip Goetz]

Hi; sorry for the delay. I used setup 2.909 today to install maybe 100
libraries, and it gave me no problems.  Thanks!

On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 9:41 AM Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
wrote:

> On 14/07/2021 21:06, Philip Goetz via Cygwin wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 2:57 PM Philip Goetz <philgoetz@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 9:10 AM Jon Turney wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On 13/07/2021 20:30, Philip Goetz via Cygwin wrote:
> >> ...
> >>>> I change display mode from Pending to Category, and start clicking
> >>>> through the category tree selecting packages.
> >>>> But every time I click on something in the cygwin setup window, or
> >>>> scroll the window, there's maybe 1 chance in 10 that setup-x86_64.exe
> >>>> will terminate.
> >>
> >> ...
> >>
> >>>> I'd like to try using an older Cygwin installer, but I didn't find
> >>>> links to older versions on cygwin.com.
> >>>
> >>> You can find older version of setup at https://cygwin.com/setup/
> >>
> >> Thank you!  I tried setup-2.905.x86_64.exe and setup-2.907.x86_64.exe,
> >> and neither gave me any problems!
> >
> > I spoke too soon. I just ran setup-2.907.x86_64.exe again, to install
> > some more programs, and it did the same thing.
> > But I spent a long time in 2.905 without it crashing.
>
> Thanks to the reproduction steps, I was able to (finally) develop some
> useful information about this crash, and that is consistent with where I
> think the problem was introduced.
>
> I've built setup 2.909 with a putative fix for this.
>
> Perhaps you could try that and see if it improves things for you?
>
> Thanks.
>