Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/06/07/10:55:34
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
> [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com] On Behalf Of
> fergus AT bonhard DOT uklinux DOT net
> Sent: Friday, 7 June 2002 7:26 PM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Cc: robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au; fergus AT bonhard DOT uklinux DOT net
> Subject: Re: What's the current status of setup.*.exe?
>
>
> Email 3 of 3. Brand new download and installation using
> 2.249.2.1 after
> clearing everything including registry entries.
>
> Download and Install from Internet
> c:\Cygwin + All + Unix
>
> Infelicity 1. The default offering for the name of the installation
> directory is "C:\cygwin". As we are occasionally reminded,
> the name of the
> software is Cygwin, not CygWin or cygwin or .... I guess in
> this context the
> lc/uc distinction is not critical, but could the default name
> be altered in
> setup.exe?
Yes, patches accepted.
> c:\WINDOWS\Desktop
Urrgh. Please don't do this. Choose a dedicated directory for your
package dir.
> Direct
> Choose ftp://mirrors.rcn.net
> Click whirly near All-Default so that it reads All-Install
> Click View
>
> Painfully click all the Src? installation boxes including
> that for setup
> (but leaving all of compface, keychain, regex as "n/a" to match Bin?)
>
> Click Next
>
> Everything whizzes away just fine, but surprisingly ...
>
> Error 1: ... the download stage closes with the msgbox
> "Download Incomplete/
> Try again? Yes/No" displayed. I click No.
>
> Then installation commences.
>
> Everything whizzes along just fine until
>
> Error 2: "Warning - deleting
> c:\Cygwin/usr/src/expect-20010117-1/tcl so I
> can make a directory there". This phenomenon has been
> described much better
> than I can do so at
>
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-05/msg00720.html
>
> Error 3: Something a bit weird happened apparently while installing
> /usr/src/src/sed-3.02 [that was what was displayed in the
> progress window]
> with the display of
>
> "Cant open (null) for reading. No such file"
>
> but actually I think this was probably something related to
> the installation
> of the pesky src files for setup, since this same message
> makes a chronic
> appearance at this stage, whenever an installation/upgrade is
> attempted.
>
> Everything works fine up to the "Create 2 icons?" stage and
> thereafter, but
> ...
>
> Error 4: ... the installation is finally completed with the
> diplayed message
>
> Installation Incomplete. Check /setup.log.full for details.
>
> HTH.
>
> Fergus
>
> Both setup.log and setup.log.full are incredibly long. Here are some
> relevant (?) lines from setup.log:
Please bz2 and post the full files. We may find something more useful in
them. Certainly the incomplete download issue isn't displayed there.
Rob
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