cygwin 1.7.8-1 setup produces INVALID PACKAGE entries in setup.log.full

Ken kstmp001@comcast.net
Fri Apr 1 16:52:00 GMT 2011


Ken wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Running setup.exe version 2.738 for Cygwin 1.7.8-1 on Win7-64-bit logs 
> numerous
> "INVALID PACKAGE" entries within the "setup.log.full" file.  This 
> seems to happen
> for multiple mirrors and has been consistent for over a week now.  I 
> do not recall
> seeing this with 1.7.7-1 or other recent setup.exe releases (or even 
> back in 1.5.x).
>
> Is this a problem within the latest setup.exe?
> Is it safe to ignore these entries?
>
> Below are logs from a couple test runs (long lines wrapped):
>
[snip]

> INVALID PACKAGE: file://E:\Downloads\Cygwin\1.7.8-1/ - Size mismatch: 
> Ini-file: 0 != On-disk: 4096
> INVALID PACKAGE: file://E:\Downloads\Cygwin\1.7.8-1/ - Size mismatch: 
> Ini-file: 0 != On-disk: 4096
> INVALID PACKAGE: file://E:\Downloads\Cygwin\1.7.8-1/ - Size mismatch: 
> Ini-file: 0 != On-disk: 4096
> get_url_to_file 
> http://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin//release/vim/vim-7.3.003-1.tar.bz2 
> E:\Downloads\Cygwin\1.7.8-1/http%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f/release/vim/vim-7.3.003-1.tar.bz2.tmp 
>
> 2011/03/25 20:56:47 Downloaded 
> E:\Downloads\Cygwin\1.7.8-1/http%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f/release/vim/vim-7.3.003-1.tar.bz2 
>
> 2011/03/25 20:56:48 note: Download Complete
> 2011/03/25 20:56:48 Ending cygwin install
> =====================
>
> Thank you,
> Ken
>
Hello again,

I just tried the latest 1.7.9-1 setup.exe (although it appears to be the 
same version used for 1.7.8-1)
and get the same results for a clean (new empty folder) download-only 
operation.


Is it safe to ignore these errors in the setup log?


---- partial "setup.log.full" follows ----------------
2011/04/01 12:46:35 Starting cygwin install, version 2.738
2011/04/01 12:46:35 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/setup.rc) failed 
2 No such file or directory
2011/04/01 12:46:35 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/last-action) 
failed 2 No such file or directory
2011/04/01 12:46:35 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/net-method) 
failed 2 No such file or directory
2011/04/01 12:46:35 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/net-proxy-host) 
failed 2 No such file or directory
2011/04/01 12:46:35 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/net-proxy-port) 
failed 2 No such file or directory
2011/04/01 12:46:35 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/extrakeys) 
failed 2 No such file or directory
2011/04/01 12:46:35 io_stream_cygfile: 
fopen(/etc/setup/chooser_window_settings) failed 2 No such file or directory
2011/04/01 12:46:35 Current Directory: E:\Downloads\Cygwin\1.7.9-1
2011/04/01 12:46:35 User has backup/restore rights
2011/04/01 12:46:35 Changing gid to Administrators
2011/04/01 12:46:35 Could not open service McShield for query, start and 
stop. McAfee may not be installed, or we don't have access.
2011/04/01 12:46:35 Selected local directory: E:\Downloads\Cygwin\1.7.9-1
2011/04/01 12:46:35 net: Direct
Cached mirror list unavailable
Defaulting to empty mirror list
2011/04/01 12:46:35 site: http://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/
get_url_to_membuf http://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin//setup.bz2
getUrlToStream http://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin//setup.bz2
get_url_to_membuf http://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin//setup.bz2.sig
getUrlToStream http://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin//setup.bz2.sig
2011/04/01 12:46:37 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/installed.db) 
failed 2 No such file or directory
2011/04/01 12:46:37 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/timestamp) 
failed 2 No such file or directory
INVALID PACKAGE: file://E:\Downloads\Cygwin\1.7.9-1/ - Size mismatch: 
Ini-file: 0 != On-disk: 4096
INVALID PACKAGE: file://E:\Downloads\Cygwin\1.7.9-1/ - Size mismatch: 
Ini-file: 0 != On-disk: 4096
INVALID PACKAGE: file://E:\Downloads\Cygwin\1.7.9-1/ - Size mismatch: 
Ini-file: 0 != On-disk: 4096
INVALID PACKAGE: file://E:\Downloads\Cygwin\1.7.9-1/ - Size mismatch: 
Ini-file: 0 != On-disk: 4096
INVALID PACKAGE: file://E:\Downloads\Cygwin\1.7.9-1/ - Size mismatch: 
Ini-file: 0 != On-disk: 4096
INVALID PACKAGE: file://E:\Downloads\Cygwin\1.7.9-1/ - Size mismatch: 
Ini-file: 0 != On-disk: 4096
INVALID PACKAGE: file://E:\Downloads\Cygwin\1.7.9-1/ - Size mismatch: 
Ini-file: 0 != On-disk: 4096
INVALID PACKAGE: file://E:\Downloads\Cygwin\1.7.9-1/ - Size mismatch: 
Ini-file: 0 != On-disk: 4096
INVALID PACKAGE: file://E:\Downloads\Cygwin\1.7.9-1/ - Size mismatch: 
Ini-file: 0 != On-disk: 4096
INVALID PACKAGE: file://E:\Downloads\Cygwin\1.7.9-1/ - Size mismatch: 
Ini-file: 0 != On-disk: 4096
INVALID PACKAGE: file://E:\Downloads\Cygwin\1.7.9-1/ - Size mismatch: 
Ini-file: 0 != On-disk: 4096
INVALID PACKAGE: file://E:\Downloads\Cygwin\1.7.9-1/ - Size mismatch: 
Ini-file: 0 != On-disk: 4096
INVALID PACKAGE: file://E:\Downloads\Cygwin\1.7.9-1/ - Size mismatch: 
Ini-file: 0 != On-disk: 4096
INVALID PACKAGE: file://E:\Downloads\Cygwin\1.7.9-1/ - Size mismatch: 
Ini-file: 0 != On-disk: 4096
INVALID PACKAGE: file://E:\Downloads\Cygwin\1.7.9-1/ - Size mismatch: 
Ini-file: 0 != On-disk: 4096
.
.
.
get_url_to_file 
http://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin//release/xz/xz-4.999.9beta-11.tar.bz2 
E:\Downloads\Cygwin\1.7.9-1/http%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f/release/xz/xz-4.999.9beta-11.tar.bz2.tmp
2011/04/01 12:47:32 Downloaded 
E:\Downloads\Cygwin\1.7.9-1/http%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f/release/xz/xz-4.999.9beta-11.tar.bz2
get_url_to_file 
http://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin//release/zlib/zlib0/zlib0-1.2.5-1.tar.bz2 
E:\Downloads\Cygwin\1.7.9-1/http%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f/release/zlib/zlib0/zlib0-1.2.5-1.tar.bz2.tmp
2011/04/01 12:47:33 Downloaded 
E:\Downloads\Cygwin\1.7.9-1/http%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f/release/zlib/zlib0/zlib0-1.2.5-1.tar.bz2
2011/04/01 12:47:33 Ending cygwin install
-------------------------------------------------------------

Thank you,
Ken


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