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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 03:22:16 +0100
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On 17/06/2010 00:48, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 11:22:58PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>> On 14/06/2010 14:17, DEWI - N. Zacharias wrote:
>>> Hi Dave,
>>>
>>> maybe I missed your answer but again I stumbled over the problem.
>>>
>>> Any improvements since then ??
>>  Sigh, no, not yet, sorry; have bigger fish to fry right now.  If you feel
>> like debugging it yourself, UserSettings::save() would be the first place to
>> set a breakpoint.
> 
> I don't remember hearing if /etc/setup/setup.rc exists and, if so, what its
> permissions are.

  About four or five posts upthread:

> In the /var/log I found
>> 
>> 2010/05/05 09:39:10 Starting cygwin install, version 2.697
>> 2010/05/05 09:39:10 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/setup.rc) failed 2 No such file or directory
>> 2010/05/05 09:39:10 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/last-cache) failed 2 No such file or directory
>> 2010/05/05 09:39:10 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/last-action) failed 2 No such file or directory
>> 2010/05/05 09:39:10 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/net-method) failed 2 No such file or directory
>> 2010/05/05 09:39:10 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/net-proxy-host) failed 2 No such file or directory
>> 2010/05/05 09:39:10 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/net-proxy-port) failed 2 No such file or directory
>> 2010/05/05 09:39:10 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/last-mirror) failed 2 No such file or directory
>> 2010/05/05 09:39:10 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/extrakeys) failed 2 No such file or directory
>> 2010/05/05 09:39:10 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/chooser_window_settings) failed 2 No such file or directory
>> 
>> But all of the files are like
>> 
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 n-zacharias root 5563 2010-05-05 09:47 /etc/setup/setup.rc
>> 

  So: exists, has contents, perms allow reading.  Bizarre.

    cheers,
      DaveK


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