WindowsXP crashes during cygwin setup instal phase

[Ralf Habacker]

Arkady Andrukonis schrieb:
> Hi Folks,
>
> Thank you for providing a very fine product allowing
> me to run my favorite OS inside WindowsXP. I came upon
> it once before when running octave on WindowsNT, but
> today I wanted to run Konqueror 'cause IE6 became
> unstable and keeps crashing on my machine.
>
> During the installation phase, while running the
> postinstall .sh scripts, WindowsXP crashed several
> times with the blue screen of death. Even running the
> incomplete install KDE was a problem, I was not able
> to exit cygwin. I was able to isolate the culprit, I
> saw that emacs installed fine. The next install was
> Tetex and its postintall script was the cause of the
> crash. When I uninstalled Tetex, from the selection
> screen, everything ran afterwards like butter. I did
> not attempt to try installing Tetex alone to see if
> the problem persists. 
>
> I used the cygwin setup version 2.573.2.2 with install
> from Internet option using the
> ftp://sunsite.dk/cygwin/ports repository. I am running
> OEM version of Windows XP SP2 2002 release on Toshiba
> Satellite A55-S326 with 512 RAM, Intel 1.60 GHz
> Pentium(M) Centrino processor.
>   
If you installed packages from http://cygwinports.dotsrc.org/ you should
ask on the related mailing list.

Regards

Ralf