From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11835 invoked by alias); 24 Sep 2003 20:04:15 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 11791 invoked from network); 24 Sep 2003 20:04:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gateway.bioscrypt.com) (199.166.2.5) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 24 Sep 2003 20:04:13 -0000 Received: from bioscrypt.com (tgun.bioscrypt.com [10.1.5.227]) by gateway.bioscrypt.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2655.55) id TRWX8FYT; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 15:58:44 -0400 Received: by bioscrypt.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 24 Sep 2003 13:03:42 -0700 Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 20:18:00 -0000 From: Tim Gunter To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Setup cant open package database error? Message-ID: <20030924200342.GB2264@bioscrypt.com> Reply-To: tim.gunter@bioscrypt.com References: <20030924163349.GA508@bioscrypt.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-SW-Source: 2003-09/txt/msg01556.txt.bz2 On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 03:40:09PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > If you moved the tarballs, setup won't be able to find them, and will > re-download them. The log files don't matter, and will be created anew > (the ones that matter sit in /var/log, anyway). i have not moved any of the tarballs that the last few updates have downloaded, only tarballs from some months ago. when i look in the directory where the new tarballs are supposed to be going, there are no recently modified files except for setup.ini. shouldn't there be the tarballs for the files setup is downloading and trying to install? > Make sure /etc/setup and /etc/setup/installed.db are writeable by you. both are writeable by me. installed.db, however, is an empty file. there are installed.db.new and installed.db.old files which are both non-empty. any ideas? thanks for your help Igor. --tim -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/