From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 94563 invoked by alias); 10 Feb 2018 16:18:07 -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 94539 invoked by uid 89); 10 Feb 2018 16:18:06 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=continents, blurry, symptom, snap X-HELO: smtp-out-no.shaw.ca Received: from smtp-out-no.shaw.ca (HELO smtp-out-no.shaw.ca) (64.59.134.13) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sat, 10 Feb 2018 16:18:05 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.100] ([24.64.240.204]) by shaw.ca with ESMTP id kXqjeOZvQ7GjakXqke8gQ5; Sat, 10 Feb 2018 09:18:03 -0700 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.3 cv=I59Luuog c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=MVEHjbUiAHxQW0jfcDq5EA==:117 a=MVEHjbUiAHxQW0jfcDq5EA==:17 a=N659UExz7-8A:10 a=rPcOMY_BAAAA:20 a=w_pzkKWiAAAA:8 a=XU5NFFv7tcwby5nJ_b8A:9 a=pILNOxqGKmIA:10 a=sRI3_1zDfAgwuvI8zelB:22 From: Brian Inglis Subject: Re: Significant problems with reinstalling whole system Reply-To: Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Message-ID: Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2018 16:18:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4wfB1/wM5stqM5YdhbtysJDuOVr99JT9ux01G6HVedg+sxMY7HnEgul36H/E2N63O4cA1LLzt03/wMErPhngWkglQQgOYzsXZg0yHdMZbtR9boTmoNmlsi 3LGer/FpWIhh06IOpTOjznyVzguI3ZK9K7ILfEge0MptLzHW+Hwt9QOeWbNTdsRo3Stwt5o5FQIAxQ== X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-02/txt/msg00109.txt.bz2 On 2018-02-10 01:16, Pëtr B. wrote: > I was experiencing problems with my installation of Cygwin lately and > decided to reinstall everything from local package archive. I > experienced following problem while doing so: > https://imgur.com/a/9lm4W > which occured for a busload of packages. What's causing it? I am suspecting > that it's because I used multiple mirrors but this should obviously is taken > into account. One of your downloaded mirrors may not have the package version it needs to install. For setup problems, please just attach as plain text (or paste from): /var/log/setup.log.full to show last setup run verbose details to aid diagnosis, and maybe also: /var/log/setup.log with the summaries of the last few runs. Cygwin setup is really only intended to support a local or overlay mirror with a full recent mirror. You have five mirrors on two continents accessed over two protocols. Move all of the package subdirectories under your most available, closest, fastest mirror directory from all your other mirror directories, delete all others, download a fresh copy of https://cygwin.com/setup-x86[_64].exe pick just that one mirror in setup, and let setup download and install the upgrades it needs to give you a working system. If you are reinstalling, download and install only the base system packages in the first setup run, add simple utility packages in the next run, add major suites like gcc, clang, tex, base X, in separate runs, rather than trying a big bang recreation, unless you know you have a reliable, close, fast mirror on a fast link, and are prepared to wait a long time for postinstall scripts to finish. Changes in cygwin and other DLLs may require rebuilds of packages and installation of upgraded versions of packages and dependencies, but setup will not download or install anything you already have with the current version and matching hash sum. If you really have to use a screen shot, instead of a blurry full screen shot, with a short message about a symptom in one tiny message window, maybe focus on and snap just the message window with or another utility, paste it into some graphics editor, save it as a PNG at full size and resolution so it is readable, and copy it somewhere public that will not reduce it to unreadability when viewed in a browser window not as big as your full screen. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- 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