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From: Robert Collins <rbcollins@cygwin.com>
To: Jason Fu <tsfu@graduate.hku.hk>
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: setup cannot proceed to do the installation...
Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2003 01:07:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1068340062.1188.165.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FB7A71E@webmaila.hku.hk>

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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.

Rob
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  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-09  1:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-09  1:04 Jason Fu
2003-11-09  1:07 ` Robert Collins [this message]
2003-11-10 19:40 ` Shankar Unni
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-11-11  4:05 Jason Fu
2003-11-10  5:04 Jason Fu
2003-11-09  2:38 Jason Fu
2003-11-07  2:28 Jason Fu
2003-11-08  9:02 ` Robert Collins

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