Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/09/26/20:43:32
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> hi,
>
> um. very confused. setup.exe in't setting anything up.
>
> i get a modal dialog at the end of the process saying
> "set_cygdrive_flags" - the operation completed successfully.
>
> i check c:\cygwin\var\log\setup.log and it is full of
> io_stream_cygfile: fopen failed 2 No such file or directory,
What about c:\cygwin\var\log\setup.log.full? It should have more
information (in particular, the io_stream_cygfile messages should be
preceded by the names of the files they correspond to).
> presumably there is one such failure for every package that
> was endeavoured to be installed from c:\cygfiles\release?
>
> i tried renaming the directory from the _awful_ name
> c:\cygfiles\ftp%2feasynet.be%2arubbish%trash%2acygwin to
> c:\cygfiles\release and then doing a "local" install.
According to the directory name, you're using an FTP mirror. There is an
FTP timeout handling bug in setup, which I'm currently testing a fix for,
that makes setup essentially give up on any FTP transfer when an FTP
timeout happens. Try using an HTTP mirror.
As for the directory name, it shouldn't make a difference.
> i've tried using c:/cygwin and c:/cygfiles/release instead of c:\cygwin
> and c:\cygfiles\release.
This won't make a difference.
> i've tried deleting c:\cygwin after a download and re-entering all of
> the questions (but of course specifying "local" install).
And what happened?
> i've tried (to my detriment because it is a one-way process
> where i will never be able to reliably gain read-write access
> to the drive, or recovery process on linux) converting the
> filesystem from FAT32 to NTFS.
Ouch. You have my sympathies, though NTFS is a much more feature-rich
filesystem that is better supported by Cygwin. If you want to make sure
you have read-write access to the drive, I suggest "taking ownership" of
all files/directories you want to be able to write to. Once the files are
owned by you, you can change the ACLs appropriately.
> i've tried setup.exe versions 2.510.2.2, setup 2.427, 2.457.
>
> not one of these things allows for a successful installation,
> with every result the same: io_stream_cygfile failures.
>
> wtf is going on and what am i missing?
>
> guidance to a solution / things to try much appreciated.
Please try an HTTP mirror. If that doesn't work, please post
c:\cygwin\var\log\setup.log.full to this list.
HTH,
Igor
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