setup.exe problem

setup.exe problem

[Jonas Eriksson]

Hi!

When I try to install Cygwin with the latest setup.exe (2.194.2.21) it 
hangs after I have selected a mirror server to download from. It manages 
to download setup.ini but them immediately comes up with the message 
"This space intentionally left blank" and continues to eat up all cpu 
cycles. I have tried using .14, .12 and .9 which I found in 
cygwin.com/setup-snapshots, but all of these complained about not beeing 
the latest version as stated in setup.ini and then hanging like the .21. 
My conclusion is that setup.exe does not like my win2000 system. Any ideas?

Cheers
/Jonas



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Re: setup.exe problem

[Pavel Tsekov]

Hello Jonas,

Wednesday, March 27, 2002, 9:04:51 AM, you wrote:

Please, provide some more information on the choices you've made on
the various pages of the setup program.

JE> When I try to install Cygwin with the latest setup.exe (2.194.2.21) it 
JE> hangs after I have selected a mirror server to download from. It manages 
JE> to download setup.ini but them immediately comes up with the message 
JE> "This space intentionally left blank" and continues to eat up all cpu 
JE> cycles. I have tried using .14, .12 and .9 which I found in 


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Re: setup.exe problem

[Jonas Eriksson]

I have tried both "Install from Internet" and "Download from Internet".
On next page I have used the default Local package directory and tried 
to specify my own. From the mirror-list I have choosen at least 5 
different locations, same hanging result after downloading setup.ini.

Previous attempt to install Cygwin on a (another) win2000 has succeeded.

/Jonas

Pavel Tsekov wrote:

>Hello Jonas,
>
>
>Wednesday, March 27, 2002, 9:04:51 AM, you wrote:
>
>Please, provide some more information on the choices you've made on
>the various pages of the setup program.
>
>JE> When I try to install Cygwin with the latest setup.exe (2.194.2.21) it 
>JE> hangs after I have selected a mirror server to download from. It manages 
>JE> to download setup.ini but them immediately comes up with the message 
>JE> "This space intentionally left blank" and continues to eat up all cpu 
>JE> cycles. I have tried using .14, .12 and .9 which I found in 
>
>
>




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Re: setup.exe problem - partly solved

[Jonas Eriksson]

The problem is solved, partly. I used another user on my win2000 and 
then it all worked fine. I have no idea what the difference is, except 
that the user that worked does not belong to the admin group.

Cheers
/Jonas

Pavel Tsekov wrote:

>Hello Jonas,
>
>
>Wednesday, March 27, 2002, 9:04:51 AM, you wrote:
>
>Please, provide some more information on the choices you've made on
>the various pages of the setup program.
>
>JE> When I try to install Cygwin with the latest setup.exe (2.194.2.21) it 
>JE> hangs after I have selected a mirror server to download from. It manages 
>JE> to download setup.ini but them immediately comes up with the message 
>JE> "This space intentionally left blank" and continues to eat up all cpu 
>JE> cycles. I have tried using .14, .12 and .9 which I found in 
>
>
>




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Re: setup.exe problem

[Sam Edge]

Harold L Hunt wrote in <200205142012.g4EKCpo40764@pilot07.cl.msu.edu>
on Tue, 14 May 2002 16:12:51 EDT:

> The reason I chided you is that I happen to have inside knowledge that this 
> is a change ('problem') with the openbox package, not with setup.exe.  

Búgger!

My mistake.

Apologies.

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Re: setup.exe problem

[Harold L Hunt]

Sam,

The reason I chided you is that I happen to have inside knowledge that this 
is a change ('problem') with the openbox package, not with setup.exe.  
Version 0.99.1-3 of openbox installs to /usr/X11R6 (as many users requested) 
rather than /usr as used in previous versions of openbox.

Thus, the files you are looking for are in /usr/X11R6/share...

This is the sort of thing that made me hesitant in changing the prefix 
from /usr to /usr/X11R6.  (Though Chuck had some excellent points that I 
don't think can be addressed in any other way.)

So, the question is, does openbox work as expected with the 0.99.1-3 
package?  Or, is openbox trying to find its files in /usr/share still?

Harold

Sam Edge <sam_edgeZZZ@hotmail.com> said:

> Harold L Hunt wrote in <200205141856.g4EIu9l23166@pilot18.cl.msu.edu>
> on Tue, 14 May 2002 14:56:09 EDT:
> 
> > You're complaining about openbox, which is a Cygwin/XFree86 package.  
> > You know better than to send this inquiry to the Cygwin list
> 
> As I explained, I suspect the problem is with setup.exe since the
> package archive file appears to be perfectly fine. It extracts
> correctly using tar but not using setup.exe.
> 
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Re: setup.exe problem

[Christopher Faylor]

On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 08:41:43PM +0100, Sam Edge wrote:
>Harold L Hunt wrote in <200205141856.g4EIu9l23166@pilot18.cl.msu.edu>
>on Tue, 14 May 2002 14:56:09 EDT:
>>You're complaining about openbox, which is a Cygwin/XFree86 package.
>>You know better than to send this inquiry to the Cygwin list
>
>As I explained, I suspect the problem is with setup.exe since the
>package archive file appears to be perfectly fine.  It extracts
>correctly using tar but not using setup.exe.

However, it makes sense to discuss this in the forum designed for it
with the people who created the package and let them make this
determination.

cgf

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Re: setup.exe problem

[Sam Edge]

Harold L Hunt wrote in <200205141856.g4EIu9l23166@pilot18.cl.msu.edu>
on Tue, 14 May 2002 14:56:09 EDT:

> You're complaining about openbox, which is a Cygwin/XFree86 package.  
> You know better than to send this inquiry to the Cygwin list

As I explained, I suspect the problem is with setup.exe since the
package archive file appears to be perfectly fine. It extracts
correctly using tar but not using setup.exe.

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Re: setup.exe problem

[Harold L Hunt]

Sam,

You're complaining about openbox, which is a Cygwin/XFree86 package.  You 
know better than to send this inquiry to the Cygwin list; this discussion 
belongs on the Cygwin/XFree86 list, where I have redirected it.

Harold

Sam Edge <sam_edgeZZZ@hotmail.com> said:

> I've just updated fro openbox-0.99.1-2.tar.bz2 to
> openbox-0.99.1-3.tar.bz2 on two machines (NT4SP6a and Win95OSR2) and
> on both it failed to populate /usr/share/openbox with a "menu" file or
> /usr/share/openbox/styles with any style files except "twice."
> 
> When I use tar manually all the files are extracted okay so I suspect
> the problem is with setup.exe.
> 
> (I've also been having the same trouble as others with setup.exe
> 2.218.2.4 and 2.218.2.6 not working for "Install from Local
> Directory." and am having to use 2.194.2.26.)
> 
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setup.exe problem

[Sam Edge]

I've just updated fro openbox-0.99.1-2.tar.bz2 to
openbox-0.99.1-3.tar.bz2 on two machines (NT4SP6a and Win95OSR2) and
on both it failed to populate /usr/share/openbox with a "menu" file or
/usr/share/openbox/styles with any style files except "twice."

When I use tar manually all the files are extracted okay so I suspect
the problem is with setup.exe.

(I've also been having the same trouble as others with setup.exe
2.218.2.4 and 2.218.2.6 not working for "Install from Local
Directory." and am having to use 2.194.2.26.)

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Re: setup.exe problem

[Ton van Overbeek]

Jonas Eriksson wrote:
> When I try to install Cygwin with the latest setup.exe (2.194.2.21) it 
> hangs after I have selected a mirror server to download from. It manages 
> to download setup.ini but them immediately comes up with the message 
> "This space intentionally left blank" and continues to eat up all cpu 
> cycles. I have tried using .14, .12 and .9 which I found in 
> cygwin.com/setup-snapshots, but all of these complained about not beeing 
> the latest version as stated in setup.ini and then hanging like the .21. 
> My conclusion is that setup.exe does not like my win2000 system. Any ideas?

Some additional information which may be related to this.
When running a self compiled setup.exe under gdb (on W98SE) at this point
(first appearance of chooser)  a segment violation is generated.
Just continuing in gdb under W98SE works (the chooser appears and is functional),
but I guess under Win2K/NT/XP this segment violation creates havoc.
The segment violation occurs in PickView every time you change view
(Full/Category/Partial).

This probably should be continued on cygwin-apps.

Ton van Overbeek

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