setup cannot proceed to do the installation...

setup cannot proceed to do the installation...

[Jason Fu]

Dear gurus,

I normally separate the normal user a/c and the admin a/c in my Server 2k3. I 
use the normal user a/c doing the downloading of various CYGWIN packages and 
then I use the admin a/c (here the admin is called root like UNIX) to do the 
installation. Recently I find the installation cannot proceed after MD5 
checking. I tried several times to remove /var/log/setup.log* and it continued 
to finish the installation. But this morning, the installation could not 
continue again and I removed the /var/log/setup.log* but this time it didn't 
work anymore.

Anybody has any idea of what's going on?

Thanks!


Jason

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Re: setup cannot proceed to do the installation...

[Robert Collins]

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On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 13:28, Jason Fu wrote:
> Dear gurus,
> 
> I normally separate the normal user a/c and the admin a/c in my Server 2k3. I 
> use the normal user a/c doing the downloading of various CYGWIN packages and 
> then I use the admin a/c (here the admin is called root like UNIX) to do the 
> installation. Recently I find the installation cannot proceed after MD5 
> checking. I tried several times to remove /var/log/setup.log* and it continued 
> to finish the installation. But this morning, the installation could not 
> continue again and I removed the /var/log/setup.log* but this time it didn't 
> work anymore.
> 
> Anybody has any idea of what's going on?

Well, if we had some details, maybe. You haven't even given the error or
symptoms of "cannot continue". And deleting the log files is the last
thing I'd suggest in 'fixing' setup.

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Re: setup cannot proceed to do the installation...

[Jason Fu]

Well, the latest workaround is:
1) delete /var/log/setup.log* by the root a/c
2) cp "download packages"/setup.log* /var/log
3) start setup.exe in user mode and "next" as usual for downloading
4) start setup.exe in "kernel" mode and just "next" as setup.exe in user mode 
is running.
5) I could see "next" after MD5 checking and finish the installation in 
"kernel" mode.

Yes, I agree there's a file permission problem.
===================================================================
tsfu@Dragon ~
$ ls -la /var/log/
total 1021
drwxrwxrwx+   4 Administ Users           0 Nov 11 08:22 .
drwxrwx---+  12 Administ Users           0 Aug 20 20:11 ..
drwxrwx---+   2 root     Users           0 Jul  1 12:33 apache
drwxrwx---+   2 root     Users           0 Sep 29 23:39 exim
-rw-r--r--    1 SYSTEM   Administ        0 Sep  6 11:21 init.log
-rw-r--r--    1 SYSTEM   Administ        0 Nov  9 08:44 mountd.log
-rw-r--r--    1 SYSTEM   Administ        0 Nov  9 08:44 nfsd.log
-rw-r--r--    1 SYSTEM   Administ        0 Nov  9 08:44 portmap.log
-rw-r--r--    1 SYSTEM   Administ    15380 Nov 11 11:50 servicelog
-rw-r--r--    1 root     None       282044 Nov 11 08:24 setup.log
-rw-r--r--    1 root     None       230584 Nov 11 08:24 setup.log.full
-rw-rw-rw-    1 root     None       514976 Nov 11 11:52 wtmp

===================================================================

tsfu@Zeus ~
$ UnicodeSupport - Windows NT/2000/XP
Unicode clipboard I/O
ls -la /var/log
total 2004
drwxr-xr-x+   4 Administ Users           0 Nov  8 10:05 .
drwxrwx---+  12 Administ Users           0 Aug 12 21:38 ..
drwxrwx---+   2 root     Users           0 Aug  8 22:46 apache
drwxrwx---+   2 root     Users           0 Sep 30 00:07 exim
-rwxr-xr-x    1 SYSTEM   Administ        0 Aug 20 19:41 init.log
-rw-r--r--    1 SYSTEM   Administ        0 Nov  8 10:05 mountd.log
-rw-r--r--    1 SYSTEM   Administ        0 Nov  8 10:05 nfsd.log
-rw-r--r--    1 SYSTEM   Administ        0 Nov  8 10:05 portmap.log
-rwxrwxrwx    1 root     None        17718 Nov 11 11:51 servicelog
-rwxr-x---+   1 Administ Users     1292068 Nov 11 00:11 setup.log
-rwxr-x---+   1 Administ Users      234210 Nov 11 00:11 setup.log.full
-rwxr-x---+   1 root     Users          49 Nov  7 08:52 
setup.log.postinstallXa00656
-rwxr-x---+   1 root     Users           0 Nov 10 11:24 
setup.log.postinstallXa02440
-rwxr-x---+   1 root     Users           0 Nov  9 22:24 
setup.log.postinstallXa02528
-rwxr-x---+   1 root     Users          49 Nov  7 18:42 
setup.log.postinstallXa02952
-rwxr-x---+   1 root     Users          49 Nov  8 21:43 
setup.log.postinstallXa03188
-rwxr-x---+   1 root     Users          49 Nov  9 08:47 
setup.log.postinstallXa03768
-rwxr-x---+   1 root     Users          49 Nov  8 09:04 
setup.log.postinstallXa03804
-rw-rw-rw-    1 root     None       501424 Nov 11 11:51 wtmp

===================================================================

The "Dragon" is the Server 2003 with the problem and the "Zeus" is another 
Server 2003 without the problem.


Cheers,

Jason

> Jason Fu wrote:
>
>> i) I successfully installed once after removing the
>> /var/log/setup.log*
>
>Shankar Unni wrote:
> Is it possible that your admin account does not have the right
> permissions to write to a setup.log file owned by the user account?

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Re: setup cannot proceed to do the installation...

[Shankar Unni]

Jason Fu wrote:

> i) I successfully installed once after removing the /var/log/setup.log*

Is it possible that your admin account does not have the right
permissions to write to a setup.log file owned by the user account?



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Re: setup cannot proceed to do the installation...

[Jason Fu]

Thanks Rob!

For the time being, I'm using a stupid way of working around it. I remove the 
/var/log/setup.log* every time first. Then I invoke setup.exe in the package 
directory by the normal user a/c. After it goes to the selection menu of the 
site for downloading, I click "next" to let go. At the same time, another 
setup.exe invoked by the admin a/c comes up and starts the installation until 
it finishes. This "dirty" method works for the 3rd times today.

Hope you'll sort out the real problem. Thanks!


Cheers,

Jason

> On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 13:37, Jason Fu wrote:
>> Rob,
>>
>> Please be informed that the files are too big to be sent to
>> cygwin@cygwin.com  but could you receive it?
>
> I received them, and will review during the week.
>
> Rob
>
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Re: setup cannot proceed to do the installation...

[Jason Fu]

Rob,

Please be informed that the files are too big to be sent to cygwin@cygwin.com 
but could you receive it?

Thanks!

Jason

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Re: setup cannot proceed to do the installation...

[Robert Collins]

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On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 12:03, Jason Fu wrote:
> Sorry.
> 
> I use normal user to download and then the admin a/c to install such that all 
> CYGWIN instaled packages belong to admin. Recently, after downloading by the 
> normal user a/c, I cannot simply invoke the admin a/c to finish the 
> installation; it simply stops with both the "back" and "next" buttons dimmed  
> after MD5 checking!!. I could only "cancel" the installation and nothing else. 
> I've struggled several times to try to fix the problem:
> i) I successfully installed once after removing the /var/log/setup.log*

Those log files you removed are out diagnostics mechanism, Get us the
logs after you hit cancel, and we might be able to help. Sounds like
you've dug yourself a deep hole here by fiddling rather than reporting
the issue - and in the process destroyed the diagnostic data we'd need.

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Re: setup cannot proceed to do the installation...

[Jason Fu]

Sorry.

I use normal user to download and then the admin a/c to install such that all 
CYGWIN instaled packages belong to admin. Recently, after downloading by the 
normal user a/c, I cannot simply invoke the admin a/c to finish the 
installation; it simply stops with both the "back" and "next" buttons dimmed  
after MD5 checking!!. I could only "cancel" the installation and nothing else. 
I've struggled several times to try to fix the problem:
i) I successfully installed once after removing the /var/log/setup.log*
ii) I successfully installed once after copying the /var/log/setup.log* from 
another server 2k3.
iii) I successfully installed once after copying the setup.log* from the 
"download" side by the normal user a/c.
iv) NOW this morning I'm trying after I could not proceed again with both the 
"back" and "next" buttons dimmed after MD5 checking again!!

I tried the above i)-iv) since each method was valid ONCE only!!

Please help.

Thanks.


Jason

> On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 13:28, Jason Fu wrote:
>> Dear gurus,
>>
>> I normally separate the normal user a/c and the admin a/c in my Server
>> 2k3. I  use the normal user a/c doing the downloading of various
>> CYGWIN packages and  then I use the admin a/c (here the admin is
>> called root like UNIX) to do the  installation. Recently I find the
>> installation cannot proceed after MD5  checking. I tried several times
>> to remove /var/log/setup.log* and it continued  to finish the
>> installation. But this morning, the installation could not  continue
>> again and I removed the /var/log/setup.log* but this time it didn't
>> work anymore.
>>
>> Anybody has any idea of what's going on?
>
> Well, if we had some details, maybe. You haven't even given the error or
> symptoms of "cannot continue". And deleting the log files is the last
> thing I'd suggest in 'fixing' setup.
>
> Rob
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> <http://members.aardvark.net.au/lifeless/keys.txt>.

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