From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 104831 invoked by alias); 23 Aug 2015 18:42:23 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 104820 invoked by uid 89); 23 Aug 2015 18:42:22 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_ENVFROM_END_DIGIT,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: nm13-vm9.access.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com Received: from nm13-vm9.access.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com (HELO nm13-vm9.access.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com) (216.109.115.9) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Sun, 23 Aug 2015 18:42:21 +0000 Received: from [66.196.81.158] by nm13.access.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 23 Aug 2015 18:42:19 -0000 Received: from [98.138.226.243] by tm4.access.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 23 Aug 2015 18:42:19 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp114.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 23 Aug 2015 18:42:19 -0000 X-Yahoo-SMTP: vUK3UKuswBCE01YQVYEZ1wHCa.HPSVCYhektzgdifA-- Subject: Re: setup-x86_64.exe Unable to get setup.ini on all mirrors To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <55D5E2D2.1040308@bellsouth.net> <55D9C8F2.4090608@bellsouth.net> From: Dennis Putnam X-Enigmail-Draft-Status: N1110 Message-ID: <55DA140D.5080805@bellsouth.net> Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2015 18:42:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="0NXgL290RK4rJaH9DExiuJIj07f7nIchC" X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-08/txt/msg00385.txt.bz2 --0NXgL290RK4rJaH9DExiuJIj07f7nIchC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-length: 1695 Hi Helmut, Thanks for the reply. I can download that file but now that I have it, how do I get setup to use it? However, I don't think that would work either since the problem seems to be that cygwin cannot communicate with the network. As for apt-cyg, I don't have it installed and, because of this problem, I can't install anything. On 8/23/2015 10:00 AM, Helmut Karlowski wrote: > Am 23.08.2015, 14:21 Uhr, schrieb Dennis Putnam: > >> Since I have gotten no response to this and am stuck I assume my problem >> is badly worded. I don't know how else to present it. Perhaps someone >> explaining how setup uses the windows network interface would help. >> >> If it helps, I tried installing Cygwin from scratch and it will not even >> download the list of mirrors. If I add a specific mirror I get the same >> subject error message. Clearly setup is having trouble communicating on >> the network and it is probably related to something left over from the > > Have you tried to download setup.ini manually? > > Are you able to access for example: > > ftp://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/x86/= setup.ini > > > or any other mirror using a browser or wget? Maybe setup is blocked by > something, maybe you can see it in the taskmanager. > > Have you tried apt-cyg? That seems to do a better job than setup > anyway, at least at uninstalling things (different issue), but needs a > base-cygwin ;) > > -Helmut > > > --=20 > > --=20 > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > --0NXgL290RK4rJaH9DExiuJIj07f7nIchC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" Content-length: 196 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) iEYEARECAAYFAlXaFA0ACgkQ/fiWYqZ2tVQIewCfRf2xmm/+Fi1zulm2ErVKKacw DqMAoN+ZLXAd66N2trkNRviuOuSyCExZ =AhY2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --0NXgL290RK4rJaH9DExiuJIj07f7nIchC--