Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/01/18/04:14:41
I encountered a couple of problems updating my installation this
morning. I use the download option, and then run setup again
with the "Install from Local Directory" option to actually
update Cygwin. Setup.exe version 2.249.2.5.
While performing the latter stage, I got an error saying "Can't
open (null) for reading: no such file" (I know, I've seen a
number of messages in the archives about this, though not a
clear explanation of what it really means). At that stage the
main setup window showed that it was installing mutt-1.4-1,
/usr/lib/mingw/txtmode.o (which I find a bit surprising because
I had only selected the source to install).
On completion of the install phase, I was told that
"Installation incomplete. Check /setup.log.full for details"
but that file does not exist:
$ ls -la
total 5
drwxr-xr-x 11 Gary users 0 Apr 6 2002 .
drwxr-xr-x 11 Gary users 0 Apr 6 2002 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 Gary users 12 Apr 6 2002
.bash_history
drwxr-xr-x 3 Gary users 0 Apr 6 2002 bin
dr-xr-xr-x 11 0 0 0 Dec 31 1969 cygdrive
-rwxr-xr-x 1 Gary users 135 Aug 20 17:10 cygwin.bat
-rw-r--r-- 1 Gary users 766 Jan 18 07:12 cygwin.ico
drwxr-xr-x 12 Gary users 0 Apr 6 2002 etc
drwxr-xr-x 4 Gary users 0 Apr 6 2002 home
drwxr-xr-x 20 Gary users 0 Apr 6 2002 lib
lrwxrwxrwx 1 Gary users 123 Sep 15 18:18 library ->
/usr/share/tc
l8.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 Gary users 84 May 26 2002 rxvt.bat
drwxr-xr-x 2 Gary users 0 Apr 6 2002 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 4 Gary users 0 Jul 20 19:35 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 20 Gary users 0 Apr 6 2002 usr
drwxr-xr-x 8 Gary users 0 Apr 6 2002 var
(some spaces removed to avoid too much wrapping)
instead:
$ find / -name setup.log.full -print
/var/log/setup.log.full
Sadly I can't tell you what was in it, because a subsequent
setup usage overwrote it (why does setup.log get appended to,
and setup.log.full get overwritten?).
So, 1) What does this can't open (null) really mean, please?,
and 2) you can consider this a bug report about the message
indicating the location of setup.log.full.
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