FW: Possible corrupt file...

FW: Possible corrupt file...

[Logra Short]

Dear Overseer,

Sorry to tell you this, but one of the files on your ftp side of the site may be corrupt.  As, that's what the install tries to tell me, at least.  How true this is is hard to ascertain on my side, of course.

In short, when trying to startup a Cigwin install of Fontforge, I have a little problem with the setup.bz2.sig file, which steadfastly refuses to verify.

I just thought you might like to know this, as I know how I feel if people find errors they don't tell me about when I'm in charge of anything.  And, then promptly go on to bathe me in flames... at length.  Fun!

All my best wishes,


Logra.  		 	   		  

Re: FW: Possible corrupt file...

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Logra Short <logra_short@live.co.uk> writes:

> Sorry to tell you this, but one of the files on your ftp side of the site may be corrupt.  As, that's what the install tries to tell me, at least.  How true this is is hard to ascertain on my side, of course.
>
> In short, when trying to startup a Cigwin install of Fontforge, I have a little problem with the setup.bz2.sig file, which steadfastly refuses to verify.
>
> I just thought you might like to know this, as I know how I feel if people find errors they don't tell me about when I'm in charge of anything.  And, then promptly go on to bathe me in flames... at length.  Fun!

Thanks for the report.  Can you tell us exactly which file you are
trying to download, and exactly how you are downloading it?

Ian

Re: FW: Possible corrupt file...

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 09:13:43AM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>Logra Short <logra_short@live.co.uk> writes:
>>Sorry to tell you this, but one of the files on your ftp side of the
>>site may be corrupt.  ??As, that's what the install tries to tell me,
>>at least.  ??How true this is is hard to??ascertain??on my side, of
>>course.
>>
>>In short, when trying to startup a Cigwin install of Fontforge, I have
>>a little problem with the??setup.bz2.sig file, which steadfastly
>>refuses to verify.
>>
>>I just thought you might like to know this, as I know how I feel if
>>people find errors they don't tell me about when I'm in charge of
>>anything.  ??And, then promptly go on to bathe me in flames...  at
>>length.  ??Fun!
>
>Thanks for the report.  Can you tell us exactly which file you are
>trying to download, and exactly how you are downloading it?

Actually, since this is a Cygwin issue, please just report it to the
Cygwin mailing list.  However, since the list isn't flooded with "unable
to install" problems, I don't think there is a problem here.

cgf

Re: Possible corrupt file...

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Logra Short <logra_short@live.co.uk> writes:

> Hi Ian,
>
> Thanks for the quick reply to my earlier email.
>
>      > Thanks for the report. Can you tell us exactly which file you are
>      > trying to download, and exactly how you are downloading it?
> Um - I thought I had told you.  Ah, here it was:-
>      > > In short, when trying to startup a Cigwin install of Fontforge, I have a      > > little problem with the setup.bz2.sig file, which steadfastly refuses to verify.
> I'm using Zoltan's method of installing fontforge as described here: http://www.useragentman.com/blog/2011/02/27/installing-cygwin-and-fontforge-for-windows/
>
> The file in question is as above, the setup.bz2.sig file for Cigwin.  To be more specific: it's during the 'cheat and use Cigwin's own installer' phase to get fontforge without hours of pain.
> However, I fully acknowledge that things may be complicated on my end, by my having a hole blown in my registry thanks to a sledgehammer of a registry clean-up not so long ago - the system roll-back may not have been as effective as hoped for.  God alone knows what that's done to several of my system components.  I'm fixing as I find 'em.  And, this might be one to fix.  (I am currently dreading a possible full-scale wipe and reinstall).
> However, it could also not be my end: hence the warning to you guys.

It looks like FontForge is coming from cygwinports.org, not from us.

Ian