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

[Philip Goetz]

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.