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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 10:58:14 +0100
From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl AT lkcl DOT net>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: setup.exe 2.510.2.2, 2.427 and 2.457 consistently failing, on win2000, sp4
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hmmm....

fopen(/etc/setup/last-action) failed 2 No such ...
fopen(/etc/setup/last-connection) failed 2 No such ...
fopen(/etc/setup/installed.db) failed 2 No such ...

partial view selected, partial view shows all files i previously
downloaded.  this version of setup this time picks up c:\cygfiles
as the "local" install directory.

same set_cyg_drive: "OK" dialog box at end.

On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 09:42:08PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 10:09:44AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > > On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 08:43:06PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > > > > On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > 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).
> 
> Ok, I was wrong -- setup didn't print the filenames to the log, period.
> The version I'm going to ask you to try, however, does.  Please post the
> resulting log file in the same web location (and thanks for being
> considerate).
> 
> > > >  rather than irritate the crap out of everybody by dropping a 410k file
> > > >  into thousands of people's mailboxes, i've placed the log at:
> > > >
> > > >  	http://hands.com/~lkcl/cygwin/setup.log.full
> >
> > > Did you switch to Partial view to verify that you're actually
> > > going to upgrade any packages?
> >
> >  no but i checked the list and it showed package versions: i assume this
> >  means "yes i gonna install these".
> >
> > > If worse comes to worst, I may post a debug version of setup I compiled
> > > and ask you to try it out.  It might give us some clue on what is
> > > happening on your machine.
> >
> >  ack!
> >  happy with that.
> 
> Ok, here goes.  Please use the setup at
> <http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/cygwin/setup-2.513-alpha.exe>.  This version
> contains a fix for the FTP problem, so ftp mirrors should work too.
> Please switch to the "Partial" view this time, to find out exactly what's
> going to be installed.  The log should tell us exactly which files it
> tries to open.
> 	Igor
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> 
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