Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: RE: setup fails: "Can't open (null) for reading: No such file" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.5762.3 Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 17:14:27 +1000 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Robert Collins" To: "Perry Hutchison" , Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id g447Ehq00515 What options did you select when running setup? Why did you run a two-step install? Please send in the logs from /var/log/setup.log and /var/log/setup.log.full. Rob > -----Original Message----- > From: Perry Hutchison [mailto:perryh@pluto.rain.com] > Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2002 5:02 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: setup fails: "Can't open (null) for reading: No such file" > > > About a month ago, I downloaded and installed a fairly > minimal Cygwin subset. Tonight, I downloaded some additional > packages. When I attempted to install them, setup produced a > message box: > > Can't open (null) for reading: No such file > > Retrying the installation yields the same message. > > I found a couple of mentions of this message in the archives, > but no explanation of what causes it or how to fix it. (I > infer from the context that everyone involved in the > discussion knows exactly what is going on, so no explanations > are needed.) > > Is any recovery possible, or must I wipe the entire > installation and start over? > > BTW I tried to post this to cygwin-apps as requested on the > web page, but it bounced. > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/