Still hosed by setup problem LAID TO REST (Sorta)

[David A. Cobb]

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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