Dave, thanks for the info. I'm glad you gave us a preview of the -X flag because I ended up needing it urgently before you posted the announcement. :-)
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Dave Korn wrote: > Luis P Caamano wrote on 05 August 2008 13:40: > >> Well, it worked this time. I looked at the setup.log.full earlier and >> saw something in the ftp greeting from sunsite.dk saying something >> about load too high to permit downloads. >> >> Perhaps that was the issue? > > Yes, beyond any shadow of a doubt. > Now I realize this is what started my update nightmare last Thursday. I had not upgraded my cygwin environment for years because I use cgywin ports on top of the official cygwin in order to run gnome-terminal and my own fully compiled gvim with gtk 2.0. I didn't see a need to upgrade because it all worked fine. Well, the time came when I needed to upgrade python and since it was so long since I ran setup.exe, I got a bit confused between what to run first and second and what was on sunsite.dk/projects/cygwinports. I ended up installing from the internet from both of them at the same time. I'm not completely sure what exactly happened next but it seems that setup.exe removed a bunch of packages that it was about to download and install from cygwinports but then it gave me the error that it couldn't download and asked if it should retry. I suspect now that the sunsite.dk server load went up and it started to refuse downloads. I tried many times and got the same error until I finally canceled it. Unbeknownst to me at the time, I know had a partially installed cygwin environment because all that stuff that was uninstalled did not get installed back and now I had lost a ton of dependencies. The next run of setup.exe didn't help much because now it was only trying to update the packages that were there. When I tried to start the X server again, nothing worked due to missing DLLs and other stuff. Add to this the long list of obsolete packages and renames and reorgs since I last updated and now I had a nightmare. I didn't want to reinstall from scratch because I know I've made a bunch of changes in many places in order to run cygwin's nfs server and sshd and cygserver and this and that and other custom changes. Rebuilding the whole thing seemed worse than figuring out what I was missing. A day and a half later, I'm now back to where I was albeit with better fonts, newer gvim and of course python 2.5.2. The lesson learned here (or re-learned) is that one should always do the "download-only-then-install-from-local-dir" method when using cygwinports on top of the official cygwin packages. -- Luis P Caamano Atlanta, GA USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Cygwin-ports-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cygwin-ports-general
