Re: Problem with setup

Re: Problem with setup

[Ton van Overbeek]

Jonathan,

The message box 'Download Incomplete' you get with both the snapshot (2.243)
and the current version (2.218.2.9) is due to you selecting all packages and the
mistreatment of Setup of the (source only) setup package.
Robert has fixed this in CVS HEAD, but *after* he put up the 2.243 snapshot.
So Robert, could you put up a more recent snapshot ?

Ton van Overbeek

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RE: problem with setup

[Igor Peshansky]

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Ugh, top-posting...  Reformatted.

On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, Pedro Macanás wrote:

> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: cygwin-owner@XXXXXX.XXX [mailto:cygwin-owner@XXXXXX.XXX] En nombre de Morgan gangwere
> Enviado el: miércoles, 06 de febrero de 2008 6:08
> Para: cygwin@XXXXXX.XXX

<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>.  Thanks.

> Asunto: Re: problem with setup
>
> > *cough*
> > just a thought... but cant you simply as administrator or some other
> > form of admin simply kill your cygwin isntall directory and remove the
> > Cygwin registry keys?
>
> I think there would be an uninstall icon for Cygwin (i.e. I would like
> to reinstall it and all the configuration files and registry
> modifications).

Well, Cygwin setup is an open-source project, and it should be relatively
easy to add one more action (uninstall) to it.  Would you care to submit a
patch?
	Igor
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problem with setup

[Amadeus W.M.]

I am (was) running cygwin under XP at work. It was installed a while back 
by IT. Everything gets done through IT. They are primarily windows people 
and they left out some important packages like man and others. So I asked 
them to reinstall. I can't install the missing packages myself, they have 
to download whatever I need, scan it for viruses, pack it somehow, then 
install it on my machine. 

Long story short, when all planets were in alignment, I ran setup to do 
an installation from scratch (over my existing installation). 
Accidentally, I had a shell open (I run bash in rxvt). At some point the 
installer wanted to uninstall bash, it failed. I closed the shell and I 
told it to retry, but it kept failing so I pressed cancel. I ran setup 
again (several times) and at each time I would get an error that setup 
crashed, please inform Microsoft . I said no, but the installer would 
hang. Always when it was trying to uninstall bash. 

Cygwin did install properly on other co-workers' machines, so I imagine I 
caused the whole thing by having the shell open the first time. The 
question is what do I do now? I don't even know where to start. 

Is there a way to completely remove cygwin as if it was never there? Do I 
have to clean up some entries in the registry? Delete /cygdrive/c/cygwin? 
I'm a linux guy, I have no idea what to do in windows. 

I'd appreciate any suggestions. Thanks!




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Re: problem with setup

[Warren Young]

Amadeus W.M. wrote:
> 
> Is there a way to completely remove cygwin as if it was never there? 

http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all

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Re: problem with setup

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

Warren Young wrote:
> Amadeus W.M. wrote:
>>
>> Is there a way to completely remove cygwin as if it was never there? 
> 
> http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all

Might be worth trying to delete (or move aside) '/etc/setup/bash.lst.gz'
first.  If that doesn't help, you might be stuck with starting over if
you're looking for the easy path.

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A: Yes.
 > Q: Are you sure?
 >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
 >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?

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Re: problem with setup

[Amadeus W.M.]

On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 20:59:11 -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:

> Warren Young wrote:
>> Amadeus W.M. wrote:
>>>
>>> Is there a way to completely remove cygwin as if it was never there?
>> 
>> http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all
> 
> Might be worth trying to delete (or move aside) '/etc/setup/bash.lst.gz'
> first.  If that doesn't help, you might be stuck with starting over if
> you're looking for the easy path.

That's what I'm trying to do, start over with a new install, but setup 
crashes when it comes to uninstalling bash. 



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Re: problem with setup

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

Amadeus W.M. wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 20:59:11 -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> 
>> Warren Young wrote:
>>> Amadeus W.M. wrote:
>>>> Is there a way to completely remove cygwin as if it was never there?
>>> http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all
>> Might be worth trying to delete (or move aside) '/etc/setup/bash.lst.gz'
>> first.  If that doesn't help, you might be stuck with starting over if
>> you're looking for the easy path.
> 
> That's what I'm trying to do, start over with a new install, but setup 
> crashes when it comes to uninstalling bash. 

Which is why I was suggesting removing '/etc/setup/bash.lst.gz'.  It sounds
like this file may have become corrupt, which can cause 'setup.exe' to
crash.  If that's it, this should allow 'setup.exe' to run without the
need of removing everything and reinstalling.  But if it's all the same to
you, then you can certainly go ahead and do that.

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A: Yes.
 > Q: Are you sure?
 >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
 >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?

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Re: problem with setup

[Morgan gangwere]

*cough*
just a thought... but cant you simply as administrator or some other 
form of admin simply kill your cygwin isntall directory and remove the 
Cygwin registry keys?

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RE: problem with setup

[Pedro Macanás]

I think there would be an uninstall icon for Cygwin (i.e. I would like to
reinstall it and all the configuration files and registry modifications).

Regards.

-----Mensaje original-----
De: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] En nombre de
Morgan gangwere
Enviado el: miércoles, 06 de febrero de 2008 6:08
Para: cygwin@cygwin.com
Asunto: Re: problem with setup

*cough*
just a thought... but cant you simply as administrator or some other 
form of admin simply kill your cygwin isntall directory and remove the 
Cygwin registry keys?



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Re: problem with setup

[Amadeus W.M.]

On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:06:52 -0700, Warren Young wrote:

> Amadeus W.M. wrote:
>> 
>> Is there a way to completely remove cygwin as if it was never there?
> 
> http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all

Thanks! That should do.


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Problem with setup

[Bobby McNulty]

Guys, theres a major problem with setup.
According to the error I just got, setup is not
closing any of its files after writing them.
I finally got past xorg, and got up to update_info.
I'll rerun setup to get a cygcheck.


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Re: Problem with setup

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 05:26:34PM -0600, Bobby McNulty wrote:
>Guys, theres a major problem with setup.
>According to the error I just got, setup is not
>closing any of its files after writing them.
>I finally got past xorg, and got up to update_info.
>I'll rerun setup to get a cygcheck.

So, does this mean that the changes I made to the xorg distribution
worked, then?  If so, why are you reporting this here rather than
in the cygwin-xfree mailing list where this has been discussed at
great length?

cgf

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Re: Problem with setup

[Bobby McNulty]

Christopher Faylor wrote:

>On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 05:26:34PM -0600, Bobby McNulty wrote:
>  
>
>>Guys, theres a major problem with setup.
>>According to the error I just got, setup is not
>>closing any of its files after writing them.
>>I finally got past xorg, and got up to update_info.
>>I'll rerun setup to get a cygcheck.
>>    
>>
>
>So, does this mean that the changes I made to the xorg distribution
>worked, then?  If so, why are you reporting this here rather than
>in the cygwin-xfree mailing list where this has been discussed at
>great length?
>
>cgf
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Yes, it worked. Now I'm getting a report that setup is not closing the 
files.
It can't get past the update_info now.
Something has happened to setup. Either that, or Cygwin is bigger now 
than when the current version came out. I lost the URL to the test 
version of setup.
I know they have been working on. I see it in the CVS logs every day.


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Re: Problem with setup

[luke.kendall]

On 11 Nov, Bobby McNulty wrote:
>  Guys, theres a major problem with setup. 
>  According to the error I just got, setup is not 
>  closing any of its files after writing them. 
>  I finally got past xorg, and got up to update_info. 
>  I'll rerun setup to get a cygcheck. 

I can confirm this.  We took a snapshot of October 26th
(setup-timestamp: 1098732614), and in that version of setup, none of
the file handles for any of the temp files of the form (where c:\temp
is your temporary package directory) c:\temp\http%.....\package.tar.bz2
is ever released.  The system starts page faulting and the number of
handles just grows and grows, and eventually setup dies like this:

	Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Error
	Runtime Error!
	Program \\samba\install\win32\cygwin\setup.exe
	This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an
	unusual way.  Please contact the application's support team for
	more information.

luke


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Re: Problem with setup

[Luke Kendall]

On 17 Nov, To: cygwin@cygwin.com wrote:
>  The system starts page faulting and the number of 
>  handles just grows and grows, and eventually setup dies 

I can add this:

> At the crash point, setup.exe has some 600 open handles and 2 Gb of VM.  It's
> accumulated 2.5 million page faults.

luke


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Re: Problem with setup

[Bobby McNulty]

Luke Kendall wrote:

>On 17 Nov, To: cygwin@cygwin.com wrote:
>  
>
>> The system starts page faulting and the number of 
>> handles just grows and grows, and eventually setup dies 
>>    
>>
>
>I can add this:
>
>  
>
>>At the crash point, setup.exe has some 600 open handles and 2 Gb of VM.  It's
>>accumulated 2.5 million page faults.
>>    
>>
>
>luke
>
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Then I'm not the only one noticing this?



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Re: Problem with setup

[Luke Kendall]

On 16 Nov, Bobby McNulty wrote:
>  Then I'm not the only one noticing this? 

No, myself and one other person here have begun noticing it.

luke


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Re: Problem with setup

[Bobby McNulty]

Luke Kendall wrote:

>On 16 Nov, Bobby McNulty wrote:
>  
>
>> Then I'm not the only one noticing this? 
>>    
>>
>
>No, myself and one other person here have begun noticing it.
>
>luke
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OK.
I have a full cywin running now, with Xorg and KDE.
So I'm ok.
But I had to do it in four stages.
KDE is working again under org.
Like I said before, it was setup.
Bobby


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Re: Problem with setup

[Max Bowsher]

Luke Kendall wrote:
> On 17 Nov, To: cygwin@cygwin.com wrote:
>>  The system starts page faulting and the number of
>>  handles just grows and grows, and eventually setup dies
>
> I can add this:
>
>> At the crash point, setup.exe has some 600 open handles and 2 Gb of VM. 
>> It's
>> accumulated 2.5 million page faults.

Wow!

Well, it's not quite as dramatic here, but I can see a good few leaked 
handles in Process Explorer.

I've committed a fix, but unfortunately, when I begun testing to prepare for 
a release, I ran into all sorts of nasty problems, including being unable to 
reinstall Cygwin, having uninstalled it to test setup. I'm going to keep 
working on it though... after I've completely purged Cygwin from my 
computer, reinstalled, and set up a VM to do tests in without disrupting my 
primary machine. Might take a while.

Max.


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Re: Problem with setup

[Luke Kendall]

I should also add that after a setup.exe crash at 9:38am after being
left running overnight, later attempts to install that day (with the VM
size steadily increasing, and setup.exe appearing to "stick" at the
stage where it is installing the zip package), that setup.log was not
updated by the later installation attempts.

Shouldn't setup.log be getting opened in append mode?  We examined it
at various times during a later installation attempt, and the contents
didn't change and the file modification time stayed at 9:38am.

luke


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Re: Problem with setup

[Max Bowsher]

Luke Kendall wrote:
> I should also add that after a setup.exe crash at 9:38am after being
> left running overnight, later attempts to install that day (with the VM
> size steadily increasing, and setup.exe appearing to "stick" at the
> stage where it is installing the zip package), that setup.log was not
> updated by the later installation attempts.
>
> Shouldn't setup.log be getting opened in append mode?  We examined it
> at various times during a later installation attempt, and the contents
> didn't change and the file modification time stayed at 9:38am.

At the moment, the log files are written to disc in one bulk write when 
setup.exe completes. That's probably not a great design feature.

Max.


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Re: Problem with setup

[Luke Kendall]

On 17 Nov, Max Bowsher wrote:
>  Luke Kendall wrote:
> > I should also add that after a setup.exe crash at 9:38am after being
> > left running overnight, later attempts to install that day (with the VM
> > size steadily increasing, and setup.exe appearing to "stick" at the
> > stage where it is installing the zip package), that setup.log was not
> > updated by the later installation attempts.
>  >
> > Shouldn't setup.log be getting opened in append mode?  We examined it
> > at various times during a later installation attempt, and the contents
> > didn't change and the file modification time stayed at 9:38am.
>  
>  At the moment, the log files are written to disc in one bulk write when 
>  setup.exe completes. That's probably not a great design feature.

Ah.  Absolutely.  If setup crashes, you have no debug information!
I usually fflush after writing an entry to a log file - it's more
important to have accurate debug info than to save a few seconds on
execution time, I reckon.

And in other emails:

> > I can confirm this.  We took a snapshot of October 26th
> > (setup-timestamp: 1098732614), and in that version of setup,
> 
> That number you quoted identifies the version of the setup.ini datafile, not 
> the setup.exe program.

Sorry, how's this?
$  bunzip2 -c setup.bz2 | head -5
# This file is automatically generated.  If you edit it, your
# edits will be discarded next time the file is generated.
# See http://cygwin.com/setup.html for details.
#
setup-timestamp: 1098732614

> > none of
> > the file handles for any of the temp files of the form (where c:\temp
> > is your temporary package directory) c:\temp\http%.....\package.tar.bz2
> > is ever released.  The system starts page faulting and the number of
> > handles just grows and grows, and eventually setup dies like this:
> >
> > Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Error
> > Runtime Error!
> > Program \\samba\install\win32\cygwin\setup.exe
> > This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an
> > unusual way.  Please contact the application's support team for
> > more information.
> 
> 
> That's nasty. I wonder why we haven't seen more reports of this.
> 
> Is there any reason why your machine should be more susceptible to this? 
> (Low memory, any kind of resource limits?)

Not that I'm aware of, no.  One machine was dual processor, 1GB of
memory.  Interestingly, looking at Task Manager during setup.exe's run,
even though there seemed to be plenty of physical memory, it changed to
display page fault activity rather than RAM usage.  Tweaking TM to show
page fault activity and handles showed that there was a lot of page
faults from setup, and a steadily growing number of handles (the
..tar.bz2 files which were never released).

The other PC that showed the problem had 512MB of memory, and no
special resource limits.

> >> At the crash point, setup.exe has some 600 open handles and 2 Gb of VM. 
> >> It's
> >> accumulated 2.5 million page faults.
> 
> Wow!
> 
> Well, it's not quite as dramatic here, but I can see a good few leaked 
> handles in Process Explorer.

Yes, we looked in PE too, and it was clear that no .tar.bz2 file handle
was released.  We were trying a fresh install, and selected "All" (i.e.
every package).

> I've committed a fix, but unfortunately, when I begun testing to prepare for 
> a release, I ran into all sorts of nasty problems, including being unable to 
> reinstall Cygwin, having uninstalled it to test setup. I'm going to keep 
> working on it though... after I've completely purged Cygwin from my 
> computer, reinstalled, and set up a VM to do tests in without disrupting my 
> primary machine. Might take a while.

Sorry to be causing you such hassles.  I'm hoping to get a chance to
try the latest Cygwin:

# This file is automatically generated.  If you edit it, your
# edits will be discarded next time the file is generated.
# See http://cygwin.com/setup.html for details.
#
setup-timestamp: 1100546431

luke


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Re: Problem with setup

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 11:09:26AM +1100, Luke Kendall wrote:
>Sorry to be causing you such hassles.  I'm hoping to get a chance to
>try the latest Cygwin:

You can try the latest cygwin.  Just install everything in two or
three steps.

This is not the final solution, of course, but this problem doesn't
seem like a total showstopper to me.  Bobby McNulty can probably provide
more details.  In fact, I think he's already done so.

cgf

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Re: Problem with setup

[Bobby McNulty]

Christopher Faylor wrote:

>On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 11:09:26AM +1100, Luke Kendall wrote:
>  
>
>>Sorry to be causing you such hassles.  I'm hoping to get a chance to
>>try the latest Cygwin:
>>    
>>
>
>You can try the latest cygwin.  Just install everything in two or
>three steps.
>
>This is not the final solution, of course, but this problem doesn't
>seem like a total showstopper to me.  Bobby McNulty can probably provide
>more details.  In fact, I think he's already done so.
>
>cgf
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First install all of the main cygwin without the gnome stuff, then 
install the x stuff with gnome. Go to Sourceforge and get KDE on Cygwin.
rebaseall.
startx
and you shound have the KDE desktop on X with cygwin.
Neat, huh?
It works for me.
Now, I'm trying to find a good MIDI sequencer that runs under KDE and 
Cygwin.
Rosegarden has too many problems I don't want to deal with.
Bobby


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Re: Problem with setup

[Brian Dessent]

Luke Kendall wrote:

> > > I can confirm this.  We took a snapshot of October 26th
> > > (setup-timestamp: 1098732614), and in that version of setup,
> >
> > That number you quoted identifies the version of the setup.ini datafile, not
> > the setup.exe program.
> 
> Sorry, how's this?
> $  bunzip2 -c setup.bz2 | head -5
> # This file is automatically generated.  If you edit it, your
> # edits will be discarded next time the file is generated.
> # See http://cygwin.com/setup.html for details.
> #
> setup-timestamp: 1098732614

That's still just telling you the timestamp when setup.ini was created. 
It has no bearing on the version of setup.exe, which is displayed on the
first panel, e.g. "Setup.exe version 2.431".

Brian

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Re: Problem with setup

[Max Bowsher]

luke.kendall@cisra.canon.com.au wrote:
> On 11 Nov, Bobby McNulty wrote:
>>  Guys, theres a major problem with setup.
>>  According to the error I just got, setup is not
>>  closing any of its files after writing them.
>>  I finally got past xorg, and got up to update_info.
>>  I'll rerun setup to get a cygcheck.
>
> I can confirm this.  We took a snapshot of October 26th
> (setup-timestamp: 1098732614), and in that version of setup,

That number you quoted identifies the version of the setup.ini datafile, not 
the setup.exe program.

> none of
> the file handles for any of the temp files of the form (where c:\temp
> is your temporary package directory) c:\temp\http%.....\package.tar.bz2
> is ever released.  The system starts page faulting and the number of
> handles just grows and grows, and eventually setup dies like this:
>
> Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Error
> Runtime Error!
> Program \\samba\install\win32\cygwin\setup.exe
> This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an
> unusual way.  Please contact the application's support team for
> more information.


That's nasty. I wonder why we haven't seen more reports of this.

Is there any reason why your machine should be more susceptible to this? 
(Low memory, any kind of resource limits?)

Max.


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Re: Problem with setup

[Bobby McNulty]

Max Bowsher wrote:

> luke.kendall@cisra.canon.com.au wrote:
>
>> On 11 Nov, Bobby McNulty wrote:
>>
>>>  Guys, theres a major problem with setup.
>>>  According to the error I just got, setup is not
>>>  closing any of its files after writing them.
>>>  I finally got past xorg, and got up to update_info.
>>>  I'll rerun setup to get a cygcheck.
>>
>>
>> I can confirm this.  We took a snapshot of October 26th
>> (setup-timestamp: 1098732614), and in that version of setup,
>
>
> That number you quoted identifies the version of the setup.ini 
> datafile, not the setup.exe program.
>
>> none of
>> the file handles for any of the temp files of the form (where c:\temp
>> is your temporary package directory) c:\temp\http%.....\package.tar.bz2
>> is ever released.  The system starts page faulting and the number of
>> handles just grows and grows, and eventually setup dies like this:
>>
>> Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Error
>> Runtime Error!
>> Program \\samba\install\win32\cygwin\setup.exe
>> This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an
>> unusual way.  Please contact the application's support team for
>> more information.
>
>
>
> That's nasty. I wonder why we haven't seen more reports of this.
>
> Is there any reason why your machine should be more susceptible to 
> this? (Low memory, any kind of resource limits?)
>
> Max.
>
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As for for, 256 MB on Celeron II running XP Pro with Service pack 2.
Running SP2 since it came out.
Problem started November 3rd with a full installation.


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RE: Problem with setup

[Underwood, Jonathan]

Actually, just tried the latest snapshot (2.248) and i still get a download
incomplete error with the post install script and a "Can't open (null) for
reading: No such file" error when installing Ssh.bin.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ton van Overbeek [mailto:tvoverbe@cistron.nl]
> Sent: May 27, 2002 4:46 AM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Cc: Jonathan.Underwood@nrc.ca; robert.collins@itdomain.com.au
> Subject: Re: Problem with setup
> 
> 
> Jonathan,
> 
> The message box 'Download Incomplete' you get with both the 
> snapshot (2.243)
> and the current version (2.218.2.9) is due to you selecting 
> all packages and the
> mistreatment of Setup of the (source only) setup package.
> Robert has fixed this in CVS HEAD, but *after* he put up the 
> 2.243 snapshot.
> So Robert, could you put up a more recent snapshot ?
> 
> Ton van Overbeek
> 

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RE: Problem with setup

[Underwood, Jonathan]

Further to my last email I thought i'd send the list some information which
may, or may not be of use in tracking the problem (my knowledge of the whole
setup process being extremely limited).

Firstly i tried to do a "download from internet", selected "install" on the
All item in the packages list (thus requesting the entire distribution).
This seemed to fail when trying to download the post install script
_update-info-dir, complaining of "download incomplete" or similar. From
setup.log.full:

[_update-info-dir] action=00002-1 trust=curr installed=none src?=no
     categories=All, _PostInstallLast
     requires=ash, texinfo
2002/05/26 19:32:58 mbox yesno: Download Incomplete.  Try again?
2002/05/26 19:33:10 Ending cygwin install

Following that, i reran the setup and did an install from local directory,
which got all the way through, though i noticed in the terminal window that
pops up many errors being reported, though they flashed by two quikly to see
(i can't find a log of them anywhere). Anyway, the distribution so far seems
to be ok, but this all seems buggy in the extreme.

I see from reading back in the list that the functionality/non-functionality
of setup.exe has been an issue for sometime, though i can't see anything
directly related to this. Apologies if I missed something pertinent.

jonathan.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Collins [mailto:robert.collins@itdomain.com.au]
> Sent: May 26, 2002 6:17 PM
> To: Underwood, Jonathan; cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: Problem with setup
> 
> 
> Yes, this has been corrected in HEAD. Please use a snapshot 
> version from
> http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots, or make sure that the setup.exe
> package is set to source only, not binary downloads.
> 
> Rob
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Underwood, Jonathan [mailto:Jonathan.Underwood@nrc.ca] 
> > Sent: Monday, May 27, 2002 8:09 AM
> > To: 'cygwin@cygwin.com'
> > Subject: Problem with setup
> > 
> > 
> > Hi
> > 
> > I'm having a problem with the current release version of 
> > setup (i.e. that linked to from the webpage).  Whenever i try 
> > and do either a clean install via download from internet, or 
> > install from internet, or even just update packages, I get 
> > recurrent "Download incomplete messages" and the setup fails. 
> > Any ideas? 
> > 
> > jonathan
> > 
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RE: Problem with setup

[Nicholas Wourms]

Jonathan,

Look at the very last entry on the chooser page, _PostInstallLast, make
sure it isn't selected...

Cheers,
Nicholas
--- "Underwood, Jonathan" <Jonathan.Underwood@nrc.ca> wrote:
> Further to my last email I thought i'd send the list some information
> which
> may, or may not be of use in tracking the problem (my knowledge of the
> whole
> setup process being extremely limited).
> 
> Firstly i tried to do a "download from internet", selected "install" on
> the
> All item in the packages list (thus requesting the entire distribution).
> This seemed to fail when trying to download the post install script
> _update-info-dir, complaining of "download incomplete" or similar. From
> setup.log.full:
> 
> [_update-info-dir] action=00002-1 trust=curr installed=none src?=no
>      categories=All, _PostInstallLast
>      requires=ash, texinfo
> 2002/05/26 19:32:58 mbox yesno: Download Incomplete.  Try again?
> 2002/05/26 19:33:10 Ending cygwin install
> 
> Following that, i reran the setup and did an install from local
> directory,
> which got all the way through, though i noticed in the terminal window
> that
> pops up many errors being reported, though they flashed by two quikly to
> see
> (i can't find a log of them anywhere). Anyway, the distribution so far
> seems
> to be ok, but this all seems buggy in the extreme.
> 
> I see from reading back in the list that the
> functionality/non-functionality
> of setup.exe has been an issue for sometime, though i can't see anything
> directly related to this. Apologies if I missed something pertinent.
> 
> jonathan.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Robert Collins [mailto:robert.collins@itdomain.com.au]
> > Sent: May 26, 2002 6:17 PM
> > To: Underwood, Jonathan; cygwin@cygwin.com
> > Subject: RE: Problem with setup
> > 
> > 
> > Yes, this has been corrected in HEAD. Please use a snapshot 
> > version from
> > http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots, or make sure that the setup.exe
> > package is set to source only, not binary downloads.
> > 
> > Rob
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Underwood, Jonathan [mailto:Jonathan.Underwood@nrc.ca] 
> > > Sent: Monday, May 27, 2002 8:09 AM
> > > To: 'cygwin@cygwin.com'
> > > Subject: Problem with setup
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Hi
> > > 
> > > I'm having a problem with the current release version of 
> > > setup (i.e. that linked to from the webpage).  Whenever i try 
> > > and do either a clean install via download from internet, or 
> > > install from internet, or even just update packages, I get 
> > > recurrent "Download incomplete messages" and the setup fails. 
> > > Any ideas? 
> > > 
> > > jonathan
> > > 
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RE: Problem with setup

[Underwood, Jonathan]

hm, problem still persists with the current snapshot 2.243. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Collins [mailto:robert.collins@itdomain.com.au]
> Sent: May 26, 2002 6:17 PM
> To: Underwood, Jonathan; cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: Problem with setup
> 
> 
> Yes, this has been corrected in HEAD. Please use a snapshot 
> version from
> http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots, or make sure that the setup.exe
> package is set to source only, not binary downloads.
> 
> Rob
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Underwood, Jonathan [mailto:Jonathan.Underwood@nrc.ca] 
> > Sent: Monday, May 27, 2002 8:09 AM
> > To: 'cygwin@cygwin.com'
> > Subject: Problem with setup
> > 
> > 
> > Hi
> > 
> > I'm having a problem with the current release version of 
> > setup (i.e. that linked to from the webpage).  Whenever i try 
> > and do either a clean install via download from internet, or 
> > install from internet, or even just update packages, I get 
> > recurrent "Download incomplete messages" and the setup fails. 
> > Any ideas? 
> > 
> > jonathan
> > 
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RE: Problem with setup

[Robert Collins]

Yes, this has been corrected in HEAD. Please use a snapshot version from
http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots, or make sure that the setup.exe
package is set to source only, not binary downloads.

Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Underwood, Jonathan [mailto:Jonathan.Underwood@nrc.ca] 
> Sent: Monday, May 27, 2002 8:09 AM
> To: 'cygwin@cygwin.com'
> Subject: Problem with setup
> 
> 
> Hi
> 
> I'm having a problem with the current release version of 
> setup (i.e. that linked to from the webpage).  Whenever i try 
> and do either a clean install via download from internet, or 
> install from internet, or even just update packages, I get 
> recurrent "Download incomplete messages" and the setup fails. 
> Any ideas? 
> 
> jonathan
> 
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Problem with setup

[Underwood, Jonathan]

Hi

I'm having a problem with the current release version of setup (i.e. that
linked to from the webpage).  Whenever i try and do either a clean install
via download from internet, or install from internet, or even just update
packages, I get recurrent "Download incomplete messages" and the setup
fails. Any ideas? 

jonathan

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RE: Problem with setup

[Robert Collins]

There is a new version that you can use. Just download it again.

Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dimitris Zygiridis [mailto:jimzygiridis@the.forthnet.gr] 
> Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 2:08 PM
> To: Cygwin mailing list
> Subject: Problem with setup
> 
> 
> Hello
>     I  use the latest version of setup.exe (2.194.2.24) and 
> for the past days it 
> terminates abnormally when I try to use it.
>     When it tries to download setup.ini and reaches about 
> 98000 bytes, Windows reports that setup.exe caused an error 
> and should be terminated.
>     I have used setup.exe for a long time, but this has been 
> happening 
> only for the past few days for no obvious reason.
>     I would appreciate some help.
> 
>     Thank you
>     Dimitris Zygiridis
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Problem with setup

[Dimitris Zygiridis]

Hello
    I  use the latest version of setup.exe (2.194.2.24) and for the past
days it
terminates abnormally when I try to use it.
    When it tries to download setup.ini and reaches about 98000 bytes,
Windows
reports that setup.exe caused an error and should be terminated.
    I have used setup.exe for a long time, but this has been happening
only for the past few days for no obvious reason.
    I would appreciate some help.

    Thank you
    Dimitris Zygiridis

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problem with setup

[Eduardo R Larranaga]

SETUP.EXE is not figuring out that a new openssh needs to be downloaded.

The latest/openssh directory (mirrors.rcn.net) contains

  openssh-2.9p2-3.tar.bz2
  openssh-2.9.9p2-1.tar.bz2

but setup is happy with 2.9p2-3 - I can only get 2.9.9p2-1 by specifically
selecting it.

Ed


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