X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,HK_OBFDOM,HTTP_ESCAPED_HOST,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 12:18:13 -0600 (CST) Subject: Setup fails with 1.7 upgrade attempt From: chethcoat AT oplink DOT net To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.16 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 I can find no direct information on this problem anywhere, so now I'm writing you. My computer is an Intel Pentium(R) 4, 3.4 Ghz and 1GB RAM. The OS is MS Windows XP 2002, SP2. I've been happily running Cygwin for 8 years, and it looks like it's time to upgrade to Cygwin 1.7. I suddenly cannot run Cygwin setup.exe. I've downloaded it several times from various locations, and each time I run it, it fails at or during downloading the mirrors.lst step with a popup window from the Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Libray saying: Runtime Error! Program: C:\cygwin\setup.exe This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Please contact the applications's support team for more information. Here is the contents of /var/log/setup.log.full after a recent attempt: $ less setup.log.full 2010/02/25 15:10:12 Starting cygwin install, version 2.685 2010/02/25 15:10:12 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/net-method) failed 2 No such file or directo ry 2010/02/25 15:10:12 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/net-proxy-host) failed 2 No such file or dir ectory 2010/02/25 15:10:12 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/net-proxy-port) failed 2 No such file or dir ectory 2010/02/25 15:10:12 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/extrakeys) failed 2 No such file or director y 2010/02/25 15:10:12 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/chooser_window_settings) failed 2 No such fi le or directory 2010/02/25 15:10:12 Current Directory: C:\cygpacks 2010/02/25 15:10:12 User has NO backup/restore rights 2010/02/25 15:10:12 Could not open Service control manager 2010/02/25 15:10:21 source: from cwd 2010/02/25 15:10:23 root: C:\cygwin binary user 2010/02/25 15:10:26 Selected local directory: C:\cygpacks Found ini file - C:\cygpacks/ftp%3a%2f%2fftp.gtlib.gatech.edu%2fpub%2fcygwin%2f/setup.ini Found ini file - C:\cygpacks/http%3a%2f%2fwww.gtlib.gatech.edu%2fpub%2fcygwin%2f/setup.ini Removing empty category Accessibility Removing empty category Audio Removing empty category Games Removing empty category KDE Removing empty category Mail Removing empty category Mingw 2010/02/25 15:12:41 Ending cygwin install setup.log.full (END) These clues hint at several possible problems: An unexpected request to terminate setup.exe; an unusual way of terminating it; can't open i/o streams; user [who, me?] has no backup/restore rights; could not open Service control manager. I do not know if these problems are independent or somehow connected, and I don't know what to do now. One irritating note: There is no way I can figure out to get setup.exe tell me what version of Cygwin it thinks it's installing. How can I verify that the current setup program on the Cygwin web page is for 1.7 and not 1.5? I've been depending on Cygwin on my Windows installation for years and I don't want to lose it now. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple