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Subject: setup errors
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Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 10:05:55 +0100

I encountered a couple of problems updating my installation this 
morning. I use the download option, and then run setup again 
with the "Install from Local Directory" option to actually 
update Cygwin. Setup.exe version 2.249.2.5.

While performing the latter stage, I got an error saying "Can't 
open (null) for reading: no such file" (I know, I've seen a 
number of messages in the archives about this, though not a 
clear explanation of what it really means). At that stage the 
main setup window showed that it was installing mutt-1.4-1, 
/usr/lib/mingw/txtmode.o (which I find a bit surprising because 
I had only selected the source to install).

On completion of the install phase, I was told that 
"Installation incomplete. Check /setup.log.full for details"

but that file does not exist:
$ ls -la
total 5
drwxr-xr-x   11 Gary     users       0 Apr  6  2002 .
drwxr-xr-x   11 Gary     users       0 Apr  6  2002 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 Gary     users      12 Apr  6  2002 
.bash_history
drwxr-xr-x    3 Gary     users       0 Apr  6  2002 bin
dr-xr-xr-x   11 0        0           0 Dec 31  1969 cygdrive
-rwxr-xr-x    1 Gary     users     135 Aug 20 17:10 cygwin.bat
-rw-r--r--    1 Gary     users     766 Jan 18 07:12 cygwin.ico
drwxr-xr-x   12 Gary     users       0 Apr  6  2002 etc
drwxr-xr-x    4 Gary     users       0 Apr  6  2002 home
drwxr-xr-x   20 Gary     users       0 Apr  6  2002 lib
lrwxrwxrwx    1 Gary     users     123 Sep 15 18:18 library -> 
/usr/share/tc
l8.0
-rwxr-xr-x    1 Gary     users      84 May 26  2002 rxvt.bat
drwxr-xr-x    2 Gary     users       0 Apr  6  2002 sbin
drwxr-xr-x    4 Gary     users       0 Jul 20 19:35 tmp
drwxr-xr-x   20 Gary     users       0 Apr  6  2002 usr
drwxr-xr-x    8 Gary     users       0 Apr  6  2002 var
(some spaces removed to avoid too much wrapping)

instead:
$ find / -name setup.log.full -print
/var/log/setup.log.full

Sadly I can't tell you what was in it, because a subsequent 
setup usage overwrote it (why does setup.log get appended to, 
and setup.log.full get overwritten?).

So, 1) What does this can't open (null) really mean, please?, 
and 2) you can consider this a bug report about the message 
indicating the location of setup.log.full.

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