From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16522 invoked by alias); 10 May 2002 11:45:27 -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 16499 invoked from network); 10 May 2002 11:45:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO itdomain003.itdomain.net.au) (203.63.157.208) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 10 May 2002 11:45:23 -0000 Subject: RE: Repeated setup msgs: "Can't open (null) for reading: No such file" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 05:23:00 -0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.5762.3 content-class: urn:content-classes:message Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Robert Collins" To: , X-SW-Source: 2002-05/txt/msg00614.txt.bz2 > -----Original Message----- > From: fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net [mailto:fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net]=20 > Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 7:13 PM > This phenomenon got some traffic during 4th/5th May, but=20 > discussion seems to have died? The work week... =20 > For 00th time did a fresh install today. Latest setup.exe. Please define latest. A version number will do. (I can think of three definitions off-hand)> =20 > This is from Local Directory, by the way: but all .tar.bz2=20 > and -src.tar.bz2 and .tar.gz and -src.tar.gz are present in=20 > the approprate directory under /release/, for [prev] and=20 > [test] as well as [curr]. Ok. =20 > Select absolutely everything. This time I selected all the=20 > .src files as well, which I've never botherd with in the=20 > past. During installation (which btw has been successful :=20 > everything I've tried, works, as it always has in the past)=20 > repeated message boxes >=20 > "Can't open (null) for reading: No such file" Urgh. I really want to squash that bug. =20 > were presented to screen, always with reference to filename=20 > -src. Just kept on clicking the message boxes away until=20 > eventually the installation groaned its way to completion. >=20 > I observe : >=20 > 1. Three sets of source files _have_ actually been installed.=20 > They are in >=20 > /usr/src/src/diff > /usr/src/src/gperf > /usr/src/src/m4 >=20 > 2. Note double /src/. Is this the correct location? No. That is definitely faulty. =20 > 3. For each of these applications, there is no versioning in=20 > the filename (as in bash-2.05a-3 for instance) : they are=20 > just called diff, gperf and m4. Coincidence or what? That is up to the packager. =20 > So it looks as though the "Can't open ..." failure is almost=20 > but not quite reducible to a file-naming glitch? Dunno, but=20 > hope this helps. It may. Thank you for the detailed analysis. This is really good stuff. =20 > I have not tried a network installation from scratch, also=20 > incorporating -src files. But I will, now. >=20 > They are huge and awful (2 MB), so I will only send the=20 > matching setup.log and setup.log.full if requested. Please send privately to me (bzip2'd). Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/