Upgrading to Setup 2.358 didn't solve the problem, although it did speed up the process of changing from "All:Default" to "All:Install"Â in the package selection screen. Once again, after 2 hours, Setup was still on a2ps, and total memory usage had reached ~2GB, although setup-2.358.exe was only admitting responsibility for ~6MB of it.
Inspired by Dave's comment about the problem disappearing when he purged everything and started a completely fresh install, I went hunting to make sure all Cygwin stuff was completely gone before trying to install again. I found 4 files, and supporting bits of the C:\cygwin directory tree, still laying around, apparently because they were owned by another user (actually another incarnation of me,) and I'd been refused permission to delete them, the first time round. Once I'd got rid of these, I started Setup 2.358 again, and when I returned the next morning, I had a lovely new Cygwin system. I think a full install overnight is decisively faster than 1 package in >2 hours, so I guess things are sorted. -- Thanks folks Dan -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/