Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: "Magnus Holmgren" <magho AT home DOT se>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: BUG: Mounts to root directories causes setup.exe to crash
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 14:38:05 +0100
Message-ID: <LNBBJIKCLBKJMCCLELOEIEOCCIAA.magho@home.se>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
	charset="iso-8859-1"
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4920.2300
Importance: Normal
X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.6 required=5.0
	tests=SPAM_PHRASE_00_01
	version=2.41-liu_1.3
X-Spam-Level: 
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id gBEDcQk18213

Greetings!

The cygwin installer, setup.exe, crashes when trying to install files to 
a directory which has been mounted to the root directory of a drive.

Setup.exe must of course look at the mounts recorded in the registry to 
install files in the correct places. However, when you mount a cygwin 
directory, such as /etc, on the root directory of a partition, like e:\, 
regardless of whether it's done with the command "mount e:\\ /etc", "mount 
e:/ /etc" or "mount e: /etc", only the drive letter and the colon (e:) is 
recorded in the registry. This causes setup.exe to crash when it tries to 
copy files (e.g. to /etc/postinstall). Manually editing the registry, 
adding a backslash after the colon, solves the problem.

I suggest that setup.exe assume that <driveletter>: means <driveletter>:\ 
in the registry (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2 
and possibly HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2).

Setup.exe demands that the cygwin root directory, which is asked for on its 
third screen, is absolute, i.e. begins with <driveletter>:\, so that's not a
problem.

Regards,
Magnus Holmgren


--
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/