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Subject: RE: Repeated setup msgs: "Can't open (null) for reading: No such file"
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: fergus AT bonhard DOT uklinux DOT net [mailto:fergus AT bonhard DOT uklinux DOT net] 
> Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 7:13 PM

> This phenomenon got some traffic during 4th/5th May, but 
> discussion seems to have died?

The work week...
 
> For 00th time did a fresh install today. Latest setup.exe.

Please define latest. A version number will do. (I can think of three
definitions off-hand)>
 
> This is from Local Directory, by the way: but all .tar.bz2 
> and -src.tar.bz2 and .tar.gz and -src.tar.gz are present in 
> the approprate directory under /release/, for [prev] and 
> [test] as well as [curr].

Ok.
 
> Select absolutely everything. This time I selected all the 
> .src files as well, which I've never botherd with in the 
> past. During installation (which btw has been successful : 
> everything I've tried, works, as it always has in the past) 
> repeated message boxes
> 
> "Can't open (null) for reading: No such file"

Urgh. I really want to squash that bug.
 
> were presented to screen, always with reference to filename 
> -src. Just kept on clicking the message boxes away until 
> eventually the installation groaned its way to completion.
> 
> I observe :
> 
> 1. Three sets of source files _have_ actually been installed. 
> They are in
> 
>     /usr/src/src/diff
>     /usr/src/src/gperf
>     /usr/src/src/m4
> 
> 2. Note double /src/. Is this the correct location?

No. That is definitely faulty.
 
> 3. For each of these applications, there is no versioning in 
> the filename (as in bash-2.05a-3 for instance) : they are 
> just called diff, gperf and m4. Coincidence or what?

That is up to the packager.
 
> So it looks as though the "Can't open ..." failure is almost 
> but not quite reducible to a file-naming glitch? Dunno, but 
> hope this helps.

It may. Thank you for the detailed analysis. This is really good stuff.
 
> I have not tried a network installation from scratch, also 
> incorporating -src files. But I will, now.
> 
> They are huge and awful (2 MB), so I will only send the 
> matching setup.log and setup.log.full if requested.

Please send privately to me (bzip2'd).

Rob

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