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From: perryh@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison)
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: setup fails: "Can't open (null) for reading: No such file"
Date: Sat, 04 May 2002 00:13:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <10205040701.AA25977@pluto.rain.com> (raw)

About a month ago, I downloaded and installed a fairly minimal Cygwin
subset.  Tonight, I downloaded some additional packages.  When I
attempted to install them, setup produced a message box:

    Can't open (null) for reading: No such file

Retrying the installation yields the same message.

I found a couple of mentions of this message in the archives, but no
explanation of what causes it or how to fix it.  (I infer from the
context that everyone involved in the discussion knows exactly what
is going on, so no explanations are needed.)

Is any recovery possible, or must I wipe the entire installation and
start over?

BTW I tried to post this to cygwin-apps as requested on the web page,
but it bounced.


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             reply	other threads:[~2002-05-04  7:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-04  0:13 Perry Hutchison [this message]
2002-05-04  0:14 Robert Collins
2002-05-04  1:10 Perry Hutchison
2002-05-04  1:24 Robert Collins
2002-05-04 14:37 Perry Hutchison
2002-05-04 18:33 ` Michael A Chase
2002-05-07  0:50   ` Matt Wilkie
2002-05-04 15:27 Robert Collins
2002-05-04 22:14 Perry Hutchison
2002-05-04 23:35 Robert Collins
2002-05-07  0:51 Robert Collins

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