Re: Corrected: setup.exe beta (testing needed - really!)

[Robert Collins <rbcollins at cygwin dot com>]

Max Bowsher wrote:
> Robert Collins wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 02:24, Vince Hoffman wrote:
> >
> > > Havent a clean system to try a full install. however on running it to
> > > upgrade/add packages  the first run crashed .
> > > on the second run all was fine and componants were added/updated
> > > perfectly. I tried running a few more times to reproduce the crash and
> > > on average about one in 5 times (very rough average) it crashed.(see
> > > attached drwatson crashlog) for log of 2 of these crashes.
>
>
> I'm getting this too - but only on my desktop - not my laptop.
>
> Crash frequency is only 1 in 20, as well.
>
>
> > Ok, well this is 'not good' :}.
> >
> > At what point does it crash?
>
>
> Before the splash page appears.

Ah. Can you reproduce it under gdb? If not, can you generate the line 
numbers from the addresses in the backtrace (hint: fire up gdb, load the 
.exe that you used to provoke the problem, and then
list *0x000223344 )

Cheers,
Rob



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