Jens Axel found the link: http://bugs.plt-scheme.org/query/?cmd=view&pr=9554
And, Eli, there is a Doug/Appdata/Local/VirtualStore/Program Files/PLT/collects/scribblings/main/user directory created on my Vista machine in the Virtual Store. So, the PLT/collects/scribblings/main/user directory was apparantly created after the install. I'm not sure why it's empty, unless the directory itself is the lock. Doug On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Eli Barzilay <e...@barzilay.org> wrote: > On Jul 21, Doug Williams wrote: > > Eli, > > > > I get a different error on my Linux box when I try to load the > > science collection: > > > > with-output-to-file: cannot open output file: > > "/usr/plt/collects/scribblings/main/user/.setup-plt-marker" > > (Permission denied; errno=13) > > Ah, that's very useful. > > > On Jul 21, Doug Williams wrote: > > Eli, this seems to be related to the old Vista problem we had before > > (I think it was Robby that tracked it down) with the virtual store. > > On Vista, if system files are re-written, the updated copy is > > written in the Virtual Store - not to the file itself. > > Unfortunately, these persist over installs of PLT Scheme. > > Yes, I remember that (I think that I was the one who talked about it > with you, or maybe it was someone else that I talked to), but this is > only partially related to the problem. The thing is that running a > planet setup uses the usual setup code, which is trying to verify that > all the collections to be setup are writeable by placing these marker > files -- and also using them to make sure that you're not trying to > setup the same collection twice (eg, `setup-plt -l foo foo'). > > One of the recent changes is that setting up a planet package is > properly reconstructing the user index, and this is somehow done in a > way that makes it (try to) lock the main/user collection. > > Matthew -- is there some place in the code I can look at to see if > there's an easy solution? > > -- > ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: > http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! >
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