Strange behavior when executing programs

[Oskar Skog]

On 2022-12-13 18:54, Jon Turney via Cygwin wrote:
> On 13/12/2022 16:35, Frank Redeker via Cygwin wrote:
> 
>> I tried to install in fresh VM without success. (No AV installed and 
>> the Windows Firewall is off)
>>
> [...]
>> 2022/12/13 17:04:55 net: Direct
>> Cached mirror list unavailable
>> User-Agent: default is "Cygwin-Setup/2.924 (Windows NT 
>> 10.0.18362;Win64;0407;SymLinkPriv)"
>> 2022/12/13 17:05:25 connection error: 12057 fetching 
>> https://cygwin.com/mirrors.lst
>> 2022/12/13 17:05:25 mbox note: Could not download mirror sites list
>> Defaulting to empty mirror list
> 
> The meaning of the 12057 error isn't clear, but it seems to mean you are 
> behind a proxy, which isn't co-operating. (See e.g. [1])
> 
> [1] https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2022-February/250814.html
> 
> You could work around the inability to fetch the mirror list (the only 
> piece of information setup tries to get from cygwin.com), by explicitly 
> specifying one from [2]
> 
> [2]  https://cygwin.com/mirrors.html
> 
> 


ERROR_WINHTTP_SECURE_CERT_REV_FAILED

     12057

     Indicates that revocation cannot be checked because the revocation 
server was offline (equivalent to CRYPT_E_REVOCATION_OFFLINE).


https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/winhttp/error-messages