setup versions 2.415, 2.340.2.5, 2.249.2.5 - Reinstall problem?
Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail)
garbage_collector@telia.com
Sun Sep 14 14:42:00 GMT 2003
Problem report
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Late addition:
Just to let the "interested" know... FYI or whatever.
To put it "nicely":
Sorry, to tell about this; but I've had *enough* of problem reporting right
now. i.e. I'm getting rather fed up with it. So: I'll be working on these
problems with "brute force methods" - possibly removing any traces of what
happened.
So, please: don't expect to get more information than there is right here,
in this posting. I might end up posting more on the subject though... We'll
see what happens.
During the process here I've gotten the impression that there is problems
in converting to "FHS" when it comes to Reinstall-ing at least. Don't know
how true this is - but right now I don't care. I just want a FULLY working
cygwin installation back on my desktop.
These problems might have had the main source in setup reinstalling the old
1.3.22 of cygwin. Again; I don't care, as I said above.
-- Here we go --
Prior to these problems I had 1.5.3(?) and "Curr + All @ Install" setup that
was fairly recent. A snapshot cygwin1.dll was present too.
I got cygwin 1.3.22 back, from sunsite.dk, at an setup-run on "All @
Install" yesterday. Changing to the rcn.net mirror gave me 1.5.x back, all
OK as it sems... BUT:
> > As things went wrong somewhere I tried brute force; Reinstall
> > everything... setup.exe seems to have some peculiar problem with
> > "Reinstall"-ing _update-info-dir-00213-1.
NOTES:
* Disable virus scanner (I have F-secure running)
* Install from local directory
It seems to run for while (10-30 seconds?), no progress bar is shown, and
then...
> >It ends up with this:
> >
> >+-------------------------------------------+
> >[Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library x]
> >
> > (X) Runtime Error!
> >
> > Program: ...<blah-blah>\setup-2.415.exe
> >
> >
> > abnormal program termination
> >
> > [ OK ]
> >+--------------------------------------------+
> >SIGH. Not checked what the problem is,
This seems not be correct:
> > setup-2.340.2.5 seems to have the same problem (IIRC).
But the REINSTALL seems go VERY quick (i.e. not be performed). The setup.exe
window disappears after less than a minute; may I guess that the problem is
there too, but that this version doesn't detect it - in the same manner.
An attempt w setup 2.249.2.5 ... seems to work better. Reinstallation in
progress as I write this.
Ehrm...! It stops on another thing, :-7 - here we go:
+---------------------------------------------+
[Cygwin Setup x]
Can't open (null) for reading: no such file
[ OK ]
+---------------------------------------------+
The main setup window displays among other (not interesting?) things:
--
[5% - Cygwin setup _~x]
Replacing...
<no package name>
/usr/share/dejagnu/xsh.exp
and an empty 'Package:' progress bar.
--
Klicking OK -> reinstall continues...
The same appears for:
--
30 % ...
/usr/share/guile/1.6abi13/srfi/srfi-9.scm
39% ...
/usr/share/doc/netcat/scripts/websearch
59% ...
/var/spool/texmf/
73% ...
/usr/share/texinfo/texinfo.xsl <SIX times>
82% ...
XFree86-f100-4.2.0-3
/etc/X11/xsm/system.xsm
82%
XFree86-fcyr-4.2.0-3
/etc/X11/xsm/system.xsm
82%
XFree86-fenc-4.2.0-3
/etc/X11/xsm/system.xsm
--
... unsure if I missed one here, the
"Can't open (null) for reading: no such file"
reappeared once while I was typing here.
--
82%
XFree86-fnts-4.2.0-3
/etc/X11/xsm/system.xsm
82%
XFree86-fscl-4.2.0-3
/etc/X11/xsm/system.xsm
88%
<no package>
/etc/postinstall/update-info-dir.sh <NINE times>
88%
XFree86-f100-4.2.0-3
/etc/postinstall/update-info-dir.sh
88%
XFree86-fcyr-4.2.0-3
/etc/postinstall/update-info-dir.sh
88%
XFree86-fenc-4.2.0-3
/etc/postinstall/update-info-dir.sh
88%
XFree86-fnts-4.2.0-3
/etc/postinstall/update-info-dir.sh
88%
XFree86-fscl-4.2.0-3
/etc/postinstall/update-info-dir.sh
-- (I hope I typed it correctly, copy+paste not possible) --
And finally:
Installation incomplete. Check /setup.log.full for details.
[ OK ]
The setup.log.full that seems relevant is:
$ ls -l /var/log/setup.log.full
-rw-r--r-- 1 Administ 9012115 Sep 14 16:06 /var/log/setup.log.full
Administrator@P450 ~ bash (P)PID=(2380)2612, s=0
$ cat /var/log/setup.log.full | grep 2003/09/ | gzip
>setup.log.full-2003-09.gz
$ ls -l *.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 Administ 7277 Sep 14 16:09 c_svr-BEFORE.txt.gz*
-rw-r--r-- 1 Administ 7140 Sep 14 16:07 c_svr.txt.gz*
-rw-r--r-- 1 Administ 8314 Sep 14 16:22 setup.log.full-2003-09.gz*
-rw-r--r-- 1 Administ 661602 Sep 14 16:16 setup.log.full.gz
*) - attached, gzip'ed due to size.
> > Stopped trying to reinstall.
> >
> >... bash seems to come up as usual, so I'm not that worried. I
> > guess it has something to do with that particular package.
'cygcheck -svr' - BEFORE Reinstall == c_svr-snap.txt
$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.0 P450 1.5.5s(0.94/3/2) 20030913 22:06:13 i686 unknown unknown
Cygwin
/Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE - 59?16.37'N, 17?12.60'E
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