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 Subject: Re: Setup Failure To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Cc: pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu Message-ID: From: Arthur I Schwarz Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 08:15:44 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-SPAM: 0.00 Igor Pechtchanski To: Arthur I Schwarz Subject: Re: Setup Failure 01/24/2005 06:58 PM Please respond to cygwin On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Arthur I Schwarz wrote: > From: Igor Pechtchanski > > On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, aschwarz1309 wrote: > > > From: Igor Pechtchanski > > > > On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, aschwarz1309 wrote: > > > > > > > The following error message was displayed in a pop-up window when I > > > > tried to execute setup. > > > > > > > > Fatal Error: Uncaught Exception > > > > Thread: install > > > > Type: St16invalid_argumet > > > > Message: URL Scheme not registered! > > > > > > > > I am using the setup.exe and setup.ini files downloaded on Jan 17. > > > > The steps executed to display this message were: > > > > 1: I copied the setup files from one computer to another (Intel to > > > > AMD machines). > > > > 2: I copied the downloaded Cygwin files. > > > > [snip] > > > > > > > > Any idea how to fix the problem? > > > > > > Do you Google: > > > ? > > > The first match is a thread that provides a solution. > > > Igor > > > > I download in the following steps: > > [snip] > > After the work installation, I copied Setup.exe and Setup.ini and the > > folder. I brought the files home, copied the files to my home computer > > and attempted to do a local install. The install failed with the > > indicated message(s), see below. > > It's unclear whether you're doing it the wrong way or not. When you say > "copied setup.exe and setup.ini", do you mean that you copied them to the > same directory? Sorry, I meant "do you copy setup.ini and the package files to the same directory?". -- I have a copy of setup.ini in the same directory that has setup.exe. -- This setup.ini is of unknown provenance. I have assumed that it is -- ignored by setup.exe during the local install. -- For the local install, I reference another directory containing the -- setup.ini file from my work machine. The directory structure is: -- -- root/cygwin contains setup.exe and a copy of setup.ini -- root/cygwin/ local install directory -- root/cygwin//release local install packages > That would make setup crash in the way you described (see the above > Google link). > > -- I copy setup.exe from www.cygwin.com and execute setup.exe on > -- the host computer. > -- I copy setup.exe and the directory containing the downloaded > -- installation files and setup.ini that setup creates. Do you copy the directory verbatim? What is the method of copying? Are special characters lost during copying? -- I copy from HDD to a USB connected memory (soft drive). -- I use the Windows Explorer to copy the directory and all it's -- contents. I assume that this is a binary-to-binary copy with characters -- neither added, subtracted, intercolated, or divided. > -- But you raise a good question. When I want to migrate files from > -- computer to computer (for an install using setup), what files > -- are required? Is it only setup.exe and the directory containing > -- the downloaded installation files, or are there other files needed? It should be only setup.exe and the downloaded files directory... I just realized something, however: did you report the version of setup.exe that you're using? If not, please let us know what it is. If you're downloading it off , beware of the caching in IE (I've been bitten by it before). -- setup-2.427-1-src.tar.bz2 downloaded from http://cygwin.com > -- In particular, since I am not downloading additional files I > -- specify a 'local installation' in the setup pop-up. Is this correct? It should be... Oh, and one last thing: more information should be available in the /var/log/setup.log and /var/log/setup.log.full files from the failed run. Make sure they *are* from the failed run (especially the latter, which gets overwritten every time setup runs). HTH, -- I will look at the log files tonight. I have looked at setup.log in -- root/cygwin (containing setup.exe) and it appears to be information -- free. Hence, a problem with no solution (or in management speak, an -- issue which needs resolution). art 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! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT -- 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/