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#2189 Unable to begin installation on windows 7

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nobody
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Support
self-service
Unreproducible
False
2016-09-29
2014-02-27
Bab Zog
No

Downloaded latest installer from SF, ran it and the Details box gave me:

mingw-get: *** INFO *** setup: unpacking mingw-get-0.6.2-mingw32-beta-20131004-1-bin.tar.xz
mingw-get: *** INFO *** setup: unpacking mingw-get-0.6.2-mingw32-beta-20131004-1-gui.tar.xz
mingw-get: *** INFO *** setup: unpacking mingw-get-0.6.2-mingw32-beta-20131004-1-lic.tar.xz
mingw-get: *** ERROR *** unexpected end of archive reading header record
mingw-get: *** INFO *** setup: unpacking mingw-get-setup-0.6.2-mingw32-beta-20131004-1-dll.tar.xz
mingw-get: *** ERROR *** unexpected end of archive reading header record
mingw-get: *** INFO *** setup: unpacking mingw-get-setup-0.6.2-mingw32-beta-20131004-1-xml.tar.xz
mingw-get: *** ERROR *** C:\MinGW\libexec\mingw-get\mingw-get-setup-0.dll: DLL load failed; cannot run setup hooks
mingw-get: *** ERROR *** setup: unable to continue

Discussion

  • Riquet J Caballero

    Riquet J Caballero - 2015-06-17

    Same problem here.

     

  • Skeeve

    Skeeve - 2016-09-29

    Since yesterday I'm trying to get MinGW Up & running and I run into all sorts of problems resulting in a non-functional installation.

    Plenty of errors about not being able to unpack files.

    This is now my 5th attempt today and now I also get that issue "mingw-get-0.dll: DLL load failed; cannot run setup hooks"

     

  • Keith Marshall

    Keith Marshall - 2016-09-29
    • Description has changed:

    Diff:

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@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 Downloaded latest installer from SF, ran it and the Details box gave me:

+~~~~
 mingw-get: *** INFO *** setup: unpacking mingw-get-0.6.2-mingw32-beta-20131004-1-bin.tar.xz
 mingw-get: *** INFO *** setup: unpacking mingw-get-0.6.2-mingw32-beta-20131004-1-gui.tar.xz
 mingw-get: *** INFO *** setup: unpacking mingw-get-0.6.2-mingw32-beta-20131004-1-lic.tar.xz
@@ -9,3 +10,4 @@
 mingw-get: *** INFO *** setup: unpacking mingw-get-setup-0.6.2-mingw32-beta-20131004-1-xml.tar.xz
 mingw-get: *** ERROR *** C:\MinGW\libexec\mingw-get\mingw-get-setup-0.dll: DLL load failed; cannot run setup hooks
 mingw-get: *** ERROR *** setup: unable to continue
+~~~~
    • status: unread --> closed
    • Resolution: none --> self-service
    • Category: Unknown --> Unreproducible
     

  • Keith Marshall

    Keith Marshall - 2016-09-29

    The most likely cause of this is down to poor quality of your internet connection; there's really nothing we can do to help you to rectify that.

    I cannot reproduce this, and I have installed MinGW from scratch, using mingw-get-setup.exe, literally dozens (if not hundreds) of times; apart from the rare failed download, due to transient network outages, each installation has generally been entirely successful and trouble-free.

    While there really isn't much I can do about your flaky internet connection, I will offer one piece of advice: if you have corrupt (or only partially complete) archives already downloaded, you need to remove them from $MINGW_ROOT/var/cache/mingw-get/packages, (where $MINGW_ROOT represents your choice of installation directory), before you try to repeat a failed installation.