From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>
To: Robert Collins <rbcollins@cygwin.com>
Cc: "pbewig@swbell.net" <pbewig@swbell.net>, <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: setup.exe: Woe is me!
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 08:04:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0304271521550.10996-100000@slinky.cs.nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1051462151.892.7.camel@localhost>
On 28 Apr 2003, Robert Collins wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-04-27 at 11:13, Phil Bewig wrote:
> > I just killed setup.exe after over an hour of inactivity. A total
> > of over 125MB of disk space has disappeared in the last few
> > hours while I have been running setup.exe, reading and
> > replying to email on the cygwin mailing list in this thread
> > using MS Outlook, and searching the cygwin mailing list
> > archives with MSIE. When I killed setup.exe (using the
> > "cancel" button on the progress screen), I received a popup
> > message "Cannot open log file d:\/var/log/setup.log for
> > writing." Are there any additional clues here? What is
> > consuming disk? And how do I get it back?
>
> my WAG:
> setup is looping: trying to create a file, failing, and trying again.
>
> Here's what I'd like you to do:
> Check your registry for cygwin mount points, both per user and per
> machine. There may be a decompressed cygcheck you can download to do
> this. If there isn't, then have a look on this list for other references
> to the mount point data. (It's not supported to make registry changes
> manually, which is why I'm *not* putting the keys in this email).
>
> If, as I suspect, you have some broken mount points, just delete the
> entire cygwin keys in both user and machine subtrees.
>
> Now, run setup again, and when you are installing, be very very sure to
> install to somewhere like "D:\cygwin", not to "D:\".
>
> If that doesn't work, then I'll brew up a log-on-the-spot version of
> setup.exe for you, which will let us see whats going on.
>
> Cheers,
> Rob
Rob,
I don't know how much extra effort it'll be, but wouldn't a
"log-on-the-spot" command-line option make sense anyway? Or is that what
you meant?
Igor
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-27 19:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-27 9:48 Phil Bewig
2003-04-27 11:25 ` Greg McCrory
2003-04-27 12:14 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2003-04-27 13:10 ` Max Bowsher
2003-04-27 15:30 ` Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail)
2003-04-28 1:09 ` Robert Collins
2003-04-28 8:04 ` Igor Pechtchanski [this message]
2003-04-28 8:59 ` Log-on-spot (was: setup.exe: Woe is me!) Max Bowsher
2003-04-28 13:41 ` setup.exe: Woe is me! Robert Collins
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-04-28 4:48 Phil Bewig
2003-04-27 16:59 Phil Bewig
2003-04-27 16:49 Phil Bewig
2003-04-27 19:17 ` Elfyn McBratney
2003-04-27 8:55 Phil Bewig
2003-04-27 8:54 Phil Bewig
2003-04-27 8:51 Phil Bewig
2003-04-27 8:34 Phil Bewig
2003-04-26 23:45 Phil Bewig
2003-04-27 0:47 ` Max Bowsher
2003-04-27 0:51 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2003-04-27 2:40 ` Martin Gainty
2003-04-26 21:31 Phil Bewig
2003-04-26 21:58 ` Igor Pechtchanski
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