Re: Still hosed by setup problem LAID TO REST (Sorta)

["David A. Cobb" <Superbiskit at cox dot net>]

Well, in desperation I took the final step and blew away the only thing 
left after my previous rampage -- the Windows Registry entries.  I 
pretty much made my installation look as though it had never heard of 
Cygwin.

OK.  I was now able to run Setup to completion.  Of course, I am nowhere 
near back where I started -- I also lost any customization I had ever 
done and other things as well.  But, at least, I do have a working 
installation even though it sometimes isn't working the way I expect.

Of course, this suggests the problem was with some registry entry.  I 
can't see anything weird about mine, the only thing is that I have my 
disks partitioned very much like a Linux system ( it will dual-boot 
someday RSN ).  That means things like /tmp and /var ( but NOT 
CygwinRoot ) were mounted on the root of some partitions just as they 
are of necessity in Linux.  It worked great for me - mentally - but 
maybe it is a gotcha during installation.

Bas van Gompel wrote:

> Op Tue, 12 Oct 2004 18:55:25 -0400 schreef David A. Cobb
> in <416C60DD.1090008@cox.net>:
>
> :  Well, now I am completely out of business!
> :
> :  This is more data regarding the "URL Scheme Not Registered" failure in 
> :  SETUP, last reports were around 9/18.
> :
> :  In the last progress message posted before the crash, I spotted a 
> :  package name (from gnome) that was one character short at the left-hand 
>
> This happens if a package is in the same directory as the ini-file.
>
> eg: ``install: packagename_without_slashes-1.0-1 ...''
> causes setup to display: ``ackagename_without_slashes-1.0-1''
>
> (A patch for this was submitted by me several months ago, but never
> reacted upon...)
>
> If the string is left empty, an attempt to allocate -1 bytes is made...
>
> [...]
>
> :  Then "Install from Local Directory" -- BANG it immediately crashes with 
> :  the "URL Scheme Not Registered" error.
>
> This /might/ be caused by the above. (Who knows what happens if you
> try to allocate a negative amount of memory.)
>
> try:
> find -name setup.ini |xargs -r grep '^install: *$'
> in your package-dir (if you ever get a working installation).
>
> [...]
>
> Good luck.
>
>
> L8r,
>
> Buzz.
>  

--
David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate
"By God's Grace, I am a Christian man; by my actions a great sinner." -- The Way of a Pilgrim: R.French, Tr.
Life is too short to tolerate crappy software!



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