Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 15:40:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: tim DOT gunter AT bioscrypt DOT com cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Setup cant open package database error? In-Reply-To: <20030924163349.GA508@bioscrypt.com> Message-ID: References: <20030924163349 DOT GA508 AT bioscrypt DOT com> Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Tim Gunter wrote: > Hi- > > While trying to update my installation of cygwin, I received > a "Can't open package Database for writing: file exists" > error. When I re-run setup, it downloads, tries to install > the updates again, and fails the same way. > > When I run "cygcheck -c" i get the following: > > Cygwin Package Information > No setup information found > > Is there some easy way to rebuild this information? > > I did have a cygwin shell open when I did the update, > could this be part of the problem? > > I have also deleted, and moved around some of the tarballs > and "setup.log" files that past updates have created, surely > this isn't an issue though(right?). > > --tim If you moved the tarballs, setup won't be able to find them, and will re-download them. The log files don't matter, and will be created anew (the ones that matter sit in /var/log, anyway). Make sure /etc/setup and /etc/setup/installed.db are writeable by you. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/