Recently, I had a situation where I wanted to download some packages to a network share to install at a later time. My attempt produced:
2009/08/01 10:56:16 Starting cygwin install, version 2.637 2009/08/01 10:56:16 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/last-action) failed 2 No such file or directory 2009/08/01 10:56:16 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/last-mirror) failed 2 No such file or directory 2009/08/01 10:56:16 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/last-connection) failed 2 No such file or directory 2009/08/01 10:56:16 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/last-cache) failed 2 No such file or directory 2009/08/01 10:56:16 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/last-extrakeys) failed 2 No such file or directory 2009/08/01 10:56:16 Current Directory: \\host\share\cygwin 2009/08/01 10:56:16 User has backup/restore rights 2009/08/01 10:56:16 Changing gid to Administrators 2009/08/01 10:56:16 Could not open service McShield for query, start and stop. McAfee may not be installed, or we don't have access. 2009/08/01 10:56:20 source: download 2009/08/01 10:56:22 Selected local directory: \\host\share\cygwin 2009/08/01 10:56:23 net: Direct 2009/08/01 10:56:23 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/mirrors-lst) failed 2 No such file or directory 2009/08/01 10:56:49 site: http://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/ 2009/08/01 10:56:55 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/installed.db) failed 2 No such file or directory 2009/08/01 10:57:14 mbox fatal: Can't open \\host\share\cygwin/http%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f/release-2/alternatives/alternatives-1.3.30c-10.tar.bz2.tmp for writing: No such file or directory 2009/08/01 10:57:40 Ending cygwin install 2009/08/01 10:57:40 GetSecurityDescriptorOwner() failed: 1305 2009/08/01 10:57:40 GetSecurityDescriptorGroup() failed: 1305 2009/08/01 10:57:40 AddAccessAllowedAce(, owner) failed: 1337 2009/08/01 10:57:40 AddAccessAllowedAce(, group) failed: 1337 2009/08/01 10:57:40 SetKernelObjectSecurity() failed: 1 2009/08/01 10:57:42 Starting cygwin install, version 2.637 2009/08/01 10:57:42 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/last-action) failed 2 No such file or directory 2009/08/01 10:57:42 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/last-connection) failed 2 No such file or directory 2009/08/01 10:57:42 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/last-extrakeys) failed 2 No such file or directory 2009/08/01 10:57:42 Current Directory: \\host\share\cygwin 2009/08/01 10:57:42 User has backup/restore rights 2009/08/01 10:57:42 Changing gid to Administrators 2009/08/01 10:57:42 Could not open service McShield for query, start and stop. McAfee may not be installed, or we don't have access. 2009/08/01 10:57:46 source: network install 2009/08/01 10:57:51 source: download 2009/08/01 10:58:10 Selected local directory: \\host\share\cygwin 2009/08/01 10:58:11 net: Direct 2009/08/01 10:58:16 site: http://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/ 2009/08/01 10:58:21 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/installed.db) failed 2 No such file or directory 2009/08/01 10:58:48 mbox fatal: Can't open \\host\share\cygwin/http%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f/release-2/alternatives/alternatives-1.3.30c-10.tar.bz2.tmp for writing: No such file or directory 2009/08/01 10:59:25 Ending cygwin install I ran setup from the share, setup created the log file (without any problems) on the share, and I (after several attempts) ended up downloading the files to the local machine and copying them to the share (again without problems). What happened? Nuzhna -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

