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Subject: RE: setup fails: "Can't open (null) for reading: No such file"
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Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 17:14:27 +1000
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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: "Perry Hutchison" <perryh AT pluto DOT rain DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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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 AT pluto DOT rain DOT com] 
> Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2002 5:02 PM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT 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.
> 
> 
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