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 Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 20:43:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: setup.exe 2.510.2.2, 2.427 and 2.457 consistently failing, on win2000, sp4 In-Reply-To: <20050926225151.GD11050@lkcl.net> Message-ID: References: <20050926225151 DOT GD11050 AT lkcl DOT net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > hi, > > um. very confused. setup.exe in't setting anything up. > > i get a modal dialog at the end of the process saying > "set_cygdrive_flags" - the operation completed successfully. > > i check c:\cygwin\var\log\setup.log and it is full of > io_stream_cygfile: fopen failed 2 No such file or directory, What about c:\cygwin\var\log\setup.log.full? It should have more information (in particular, the io_stream_cygfile messages should be preceded by the names of the files they correspond to). > presumably there is one such failure for every package that > was endeavoured to be installed from c:\cygfiles\release? > > i tried renaming the directory from the _awful_ name > c:\cygfiles\ftp%2feasynet.be%2arubbish%trash%2acygwin to > c:\cygfiles\release and then doing a "local" install. According to the directory name, you're using an FTP mirror. There is an FTP timeout handling bug in setup, which I'm currently testing a fix for, that makes setup essentially give up on any FTP transfer when an FTP timeout happens. Try using an HTTP mirror. As for the directory name, it shouldn't make a difference. > i've tried using c:/cygwin and c:/cygfiles/release instead of c:\cygwin > and c:\cygfiles\release. This won't make a difference. > i've tried deleting c:\cygwin after a download and re-entering all of > the questions (but of course specifying "local" install). And what happened? > i've tried (to my detriment because it is a one-way process > where i will never be able to reliably gain read-write access > to the drive, or recovery process on linux) converting the > filesystem from FAT32 to NTFS. Ouch. You have my sympathies, though NTFS is a much more feature-rich filesystem that is better supported by Cygwin. If you want to make sure you have read-write access to the drive, I suggest "taking ownership" of all files/directories you want to be able to write to. Once the files are owned by you, you can change the ACLs appropriately. > i've tried setup.exe versions 2.510.2.2, setup 2.427, 2.457. > > not one of these things allows for a successful installation, > with every result the same: io_stream_cygfile failures. > > wtf is going on and what am i missing? > > guidance to a solution / things to try much appreciated. Please try an HTTP mirror. If that doesn't work, please post c:\cygwin\var\log\setup.log.full to this list. HTH, 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! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/