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Re: Setup problem: incomplete nonexistent package


On  2 Sep, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>  On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, luke.kendall wrote:
>  
> > We have a local cygwin mirror (of kernels.org).  Recently, setup fails
> > with the error that the package ssmtp-2.60.9-2 is incomplete.
>  >
> > But we don't have that package in our mirror, and I don't have that
> > package installed, as far as I can tell.  So where is it getting this
> > incomplete package from?
>  
>  Look in /var/log/setup.log.full and /var/log/setup.log for clues.  Also,
>  the "download incomplete" message results from a size inconsistency
>  between setup.ini (setup.bz2) and the actual package file, so check the
>  setup.ini on your mirror.

Thanks - they just indicate that the download is incomplete:

setup.log:

[...]
2004/09/02 19:21:11 Downloaded d:\temp\cygwin/http%3a%2f%2fweb%2fu%2fmirror%2fcygwin%2f/release/zsh/zsh-4.2.0-2.tar.bz2
2004/09/02 19:21:11 Downloaded d:\temp\cygwin/http%3a%2f%2fweb%2fu%2fmirror%2fcygwin%2f/release/_update-info-dir/_update-info-dir-00227-1.tar.bz2
2004/09/02 19:21:11 mbox yesno: Download Incomplete.  Try again?
2004/09/02 19:21:48 Ending cygwin install

setup.log.full:

[...]
2004/09/02 19:21:11 Downloaded d:\temp\cygwin/http%3a%2f%2fweb%2fu%2fmirror%2fcygwin%2f/release/zsh/zsh-4.2.0-2.tar.bz2
get_url_to_file http://web/u/mirror/cygwin//release/_update-info-dir/_update-info-dir-00227-1.tar.bz2 d:\temp\cygwin/http%3a%2f%2fweb%2fu%2fmirror%2fcygwin%2f/release/_update-info-dir/_update-info-dir-00227-1.tar.bz2.tmp
2004/09/02 19:21:11 Downloaded d:\temp\cygwin/http%3a%2f%2fweb%2fu%2fmirror%2fcygwin%2f/release/_update-info-dir/_update-info-dir-00227-1.tar.bz2
2004/09/02 19:21:11 mbox yesno: Download Incomplete.  Try again?
For file file://d:\temp\cygwin/http%3a%2f%2fweb%2fu%2fmirror%2fcygwin%2f/release/a2ps/a2ps-4.13-1.tar.bz2 ini digest is fd9509ef1ce14ee090f148f66ab80e25 file digest is fd9509ef1ce14ee090f148f66ab80e25
2004/09/02 19:21:48 Ending cygwin install
For file file://d:\temp\cygwin/http%3a%2f%2fweb%2fu%2fmirror%2fcygwin%2f/release/agetty/agetty-2.1-1.tar.bz2 ini digest is 950635063cfccccc495c6e03554a44de file digest is 950635063cfccccc495c6e03554a44de
For file file://d:\temp\cygwin/http%3a%2f%2fweb%2fu%2fmirror%2fcygwin%2f/release/antiword/antiword-0.34-2.tar.bz2 ini digest is 64d78756c52a554cd6dc9923740bb005 file digest is 64d78756c52a554cd6dc9923740bb005


> > Hmm, that was a serious mistake.  Now I get incomplete downloads on
> > more fundamental files.  I think I'll assume our mirror is completely
> > broken and install from the internet.
>  
>  Before you do that, if you "Use IE5 Settings" in setup, turn off caching
>  in IE (or, rather, make it check the cached version every time you access
>  a file -- note: this is *not* the default!).

Um, I went ahead and scrubbed Cygwin completely already. (In fact, my
attempt to install direct from the internet failed; I'd chosen "Direct
Connection", not "Use IE5 Settings".  Normally we use our mirror, in
which case we choose "Use proxy settings", and point it to the port and
proxy server to access our mirror on the LAN.  SO I don't think IE5
comes into it?)

Unfortunately, the install direct from the internet (as opposed to our
mirror) failed in the same way, though a different package, as you can
see above (_update-info-dir-00227-1).

I also could not remove the C:\cygwin directory and a few files under
it (var/log/sshd.log, I think), and nor could I take ownership.  In
fact no one could delete that except by running checkdisk to schedule a
file system check for the NTFS C: partition, and rebooting.  After
that, I was able to delete c:\cygwin via Windows Explorer (though WE
crashed immediately after.  Sigh.)

I tried again installing from our mirror, and it failed with an
incomplete download message on TeXmacs-1.0.3.3-1.  I chose not to try
again, and then setup terminated with a runtime exception (as it always
does in that situation: "Runtime exception ... This application has
requested that the Runtime terminate it in an unusual way.  Please
contact the application's support team for more information.").

It also left no log files at all under c:/cygwin/var/log (in fact, the
directory had not been created), and the next time I ran setup it had
not remembered any of the settings I'd chosen.

I just tried again and it failed the same way, the same package, and
didn't create the log directory so I can't give more details.  It did
remember my setup settings the 2nd time, though.

So, actually, I'm pretty badly off - I have no Cygwin any more (I have
an old version of U/Win I've used to collect some of the info above). 
Oh, speaking of which, here's the U/Win ls and md5sum for our setup
directory in our mirror:

..../cygwin$ ls -l //samba/mirror/cygwin
total 1858
drwxrwxr-t  7 322674   262825       512 Sep  1 13:05 mail-archives
drwxrwxr-t245 322674   262825       512 Aug 31 18:40 release
-rw-rw-r--  1 322674   262825     79753 Sep  3 02:20 setup.bz2
-rwxrwxr-x  1 322674   262825    268800 Apr 26 01:03 setup.exe
-rwxrwxr-x  1 322674   262825    268800 Oct  7  2003 setup.exe.old
-rw-rw-r--  1 322674   262825    331860 Sep  3 02:20 setup.ini
drwxrwxr-t  2 322674   262825       512 Apr  4 02:41 tmp
..../cygwin$ /usr/bin/md5sum.exe //samba/mirror/cygwin/setup.exe
51db88989d4886688ed9241406961b0e //samba/mirror/cygwin/setup.exe


> > luke
>  
>  Also, read about the "upset" script if you want to have packages on your
>  local server in addition to the mirrored ones.  Google for "upset script
>  site:cygwin.com".
>  HTH,
>  	Igor

Thanks, I'll have a look - if I can figure out how to install Cygwin
again!

The mirror site we are currently using, and which I used last night for
the direct attempt, was kernel.org.  (I didn't know that I'd chosen
the same site that our SysAdmin rsync to make our mirror, when I chose
it!)

Setup.exe says it's version 2.427.  Our mirror is 2.06GB (2,220,822,916 bytes),
2,739 files, 491 folders.  Sept 3rd 2004.

I'll try another reboot and see if that helps.

luke


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