setup-x86_64.exe does not start in win10 20H2

Brian Inglis Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca
Tue Dec 14 06:17:06 GMT 2021


On 2021-12-13 16:26, Kutty, Rejeesh wrote:
> I uninstalled Beyond Trust with our IT help, rebooted, same behavior.
> I then came upon another thread that talks about the compression.
> I didn't build it, I just decompressed it and now setup-64bit works fine.
> For some reason, 32bit doesn't have any of this problem.
> If it is not too much of trouble, I would request that you provide an uncompressed version too.
> The file size is not that bad, It came to be about 5MB only.
> Perhaps, suggest in the installation instructions to try in case it doesn't launch?

What was the URL of the thread about compression?
Which file did you download about 5MB, from which URL, how did you 
download and decompress it: using which tools, commands, options, and 
what were the before and after sizes?
There appear to be no Cygwin setup files about 5MB:

			https://cygwin.com/
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setup-x86.exe		   15-Jul-2021 11:59		1252371
setup-x86.exe.sig	   15-Jul-2021 11:59		    661
setup-x86_64.exe	   15-Jul-2021 12:05		1355283
setup-x86_64.exe.sig	   15-Jul-2021 12:05		    661
sha512.sum		   15-Jul-2021 13:37		    291
key/pubring.asc		   13-Mar-2020 16:30		   3049
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$ lynx -dump -nolist -nonumbers https://muug.ca/mirror/cygwin/x86/
		Index of /mirror/cygwin/x86/
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../
release/                   09-Dec-2021 06:05                   -
setup.bz2                  13-Dec-2021 05:50             4355068
setup.bz2.sig              13-Dec-2021 05:50                 566
setup.ini                  13-Dec-2021 05:50            18364231
setup.ini.sig              13-Dec-2021 05:50                 566
setup.xz                   13-Dec-2021 05:50             3387988
setup.xz.sig               13-Dec-2021 05:50                 566
setup.zst                  13-Dec-2021 05:50             3623348
setup.zst.sig              13-Dec-2021 05:50                 661
sha512.sum                 13-Dec-2021 06:14                1278
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$ lynx -dump -nolist -nonumbers https://muug.ca/mirror/cygwin/x86_64/
		Index of /mirror/cygwin/x86_64/
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../
release/                   09-Dec-2021 06:05                   -
setup.bz2                  13-Dec-2021 05:50             4342309
setup.bz2.sig              13-Dec-2021 05:50                 566
setup.ini                  13-Dec-2021 05:50            18405663
setup.ini.sig              13-Dec-2021 05:50                 566
setup.xz                   13-Dec-2021 05:51             3378648
setup.xz.sig               13-Dec-2021 05:51                 566
setup.zst                  13-Dec-2021 05:50             3579442
setup.zst.sig              13-Dec-2021 05:51                 661
sha512.sum                 13-Dec-2021 06:14                1278
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Where possible you should normally download from local and/or official 
Cygwin mirror sites using https with Cygwin utilities such as curl 
-JOR/wget/wget2 -N which avoid or handle inflight compression 
transparently, any available sha512.sum with which you can check the 
integrity of the downloaded files using sha512sum -c, and the Cygwin key 
with which you can check the integrity of the executables and their 
signatures using gpg/gpg2 --verify.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cygwin <cygwin-bounces+rejeesh.kutty=analog.com@cygwin.com> On Behalf Of Brian Inglis
> Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2021 12:39 AM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: setup-x86_64.exe does not start in win10 20H2
> 
> [External]
> 
> On 2021-12-10 13:19, Kutty, Rejeesh wrote:
>>>> Renamed that DLL -- same behavior, and same  access violation in WinDbg.
>>>> Killed all Beyond Trust Services/Tasks -- same behavior.
> 
> You will probably need to restart Windows after any changes in order to unload or reload DLLs and associated data.
> 
>>> Does WinDBG still show the DLL loaded?
> 
>   > No it didn't, but it reported access violation after RPCRT4.dll.
>   > (This is the RPC API, as per google).
> 
> Many of these apps have difficulty handling dynamic modification, cleanly removing themselves from the call or message chains they insert themselves into, transparently passing along arbitrary calls, data, events, or messages, especially when application code is multithreaded and reentrant using mutexes and waits.
> 
> Beyond Trust is on the Cygwin Big List of Dodgy Apps: poorly written (often so-called "anti-malware", "anti-virus", or "security") software that monitors, logs, blocks, and/or interferes with normal operation of many applications, with effects sometimes indistinguishable from malware, and known to prevent Cygwin working properly; see:
> 
> 	https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html*faq.using.bloda__;Iw!!A3Ni8CS0y2Y!uPaRC6ohLqsjqrbgUACGkx243avIO2jUMYZ09x5cgOrHWncL_fmuGb_5k5qPX0GSDDg$
> 
> Beyond Trust has caused problems because its certs became outdated unless you kept the product and its certs updated. Try updating the product and check its certs are up to date in the cert store.
> If that fails you may need to raise a case with the product vendor regarding Cygwin 64; especially useful to mention:
> 
> 	https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.cygwin.com/faq.html*faq.api.fork__;Iw!!A3Ni8CS0y2Y!uPaRC6ohLqsjqrbgUACGkx243avIO2jUMYZ09x5cgOrHWncL_fmuGb_5k5qP00bIrrM$
> 
> --
> Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
> 
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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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