Re: cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe does not work

Brian Inglis via Cygwin <[email protected]> Sun, 19 Apr 2026 14:49:13 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.os.cygwin
Organization Systematic Software
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2026-04-18 14:25, Andrey Repin via Cygwin wrote:
> Greetings, Vladimir Kurguzov!
> 
>> To participate in this discussion I just sent an email to [email protected],
>> I use the browser MS Edge Version 109+ 32 bit.
> 
>> You say:
> 
>> "Your subject says does not work but your post says cannot download - which
>> is it?"
> 
>> I mean that is a link to download a file that does not work.
> 
>> "What ISP or org and system are you connected to and/or logged in on for
>> these operations?"
> 
>> It is just an ordinary public ISP for citizens. I am not opening its name
>> because of I think it is not important for my problem.
> 
> But it's quite important.
> I'll give you a hint: РКН.

Cyrillic РКН Роскомнадзор is Latin RKN Roskomnadzor - Federal Service for 
Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media - Russia's 
electronic and mass media censorship service:

	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roskomnadzor

>> "What are the symptoms and text of any message outputs that leads you to
>> believe the operation/s does/do not work?"
> 
>> The file does start a download process in the browser but when the download
>> is about 50 - 100 kb of the whole date it stops and then nothing matters.
>> Other types of browser, Firefox for example, return the same situation. I
>> cannot do anything more.
> 
> I confirm these symptoms. Download starts, gets approx 15K and then stalls.
> 
>> I don't know what you are talking about, I just want to know why the file
>> from that link is broken for me.
> 
> Use a proxy somewhere in the open internet.
> 
> I just hope it's a local issue, and not a bad choice of the sourceware
> supervisors.
Unlikely to be anything to do with Sourceware projects, although mailing lists' 
content could sometimes disturb the politically sensitive, with conference 
invitations, talks, and discussion tracks mentioned? ;^>

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