Re: Setup column far too wide
On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: The column width is as long as the widest version number. It seems fine to me. It's certainly not 3/4 of the screen width on my system. Igor Pechtchanski wrote: There was a package at some point that confused setup's versioning logic, so setup stored a very long version number for it. The package is long gone from the mirrors, but if the OP was unlucky enough to update while it was still available, he has a corrupt line in his /etc/setup/installed.db. Since it's a plain text file, he can just edit it and remove that line (it should be easy to spot). HTH, Igor Yes, it was indeed libopenldap-bananananananananana that was the problem, and removing it from installed.db did fix it. It explains why my home computer, which I update less frequently and which thus missed the heyday of that package, never exhibited the problem. Thanks for your perspicacity. The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT Darn, and I missed it! I was really looking forward to seeing the oceans boil off into space. Aaron V. Humphrey Kakari Systems Ltd. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Setup column far too wide
Where does Setup store its column widths, if any? I'm using Setup version 2.427, and on every view the Current column is far, far too wide. At 1280x1024 resolution, it's at least 3/4 of the screen width. It's been doing this for a few weeks, at least, and I have to manually resize the column. Once I do resize it, it stays the right width when I change views, until the next time I run Setup. If Setup is storing the information somewhere, there it's nowhere obvious--the setup.ini files seem to be for keeping track of packages instead of Setup's configuration(since there's one per mirror folder), and I couldn't find anything in the registry. Aaron V. Humphrey Kakari Systems Ltd. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Setup column far too wide
On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 09:42:00AM -0700, Aaron Humphrey wrote: Where does Setup store its column widths, if any? I'm using Setup version 2.427, and on every view the Current column is far, far too wide. At 1280x1024 resolution, it's at least 3/4 of the screen width. It's been doing this for a few weeks, at least, and I have to manually resize the column. Once I do resize it, it stays the right width when I change views, until the next time I run Setup. If Setup is storing the information somewhere, there it's nowhere obvious--the setup.ini files seem to be for keeping track of packages instead of Setup's configuration(since there's one per mirror folder), and I couldn't find anything in the registry. The column width is as long as the widest version number. It seems fine to me. It's certainly not 3/4 of the screen width on my system. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Setup column far too wide
On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 09:42:00AM -0700, Aaron Humphrey wrote: Where does Setup store its column widths, if any? I'm using Setup version 2.427, and on every view the Current column is far, far too wide. At 1280x1024 resolution, it's at least 3/4 of the screen width. It's been doing this for a few weeks, at least, and I have to manually resize the column. Once I do resize it, it stays the right width when I change views, until the next time I run Setup. If Setup is storing the information somewhere, there it's nowhere obvious--the setup.ini files seem to be for keeping track of packages instead of Setup's configuration(since there's one per mirror folder), and I couldn't find anything in the registry. The column width is as long as the widest version number. It seems fine to me. It's certainly not 3/4 of the screen width on my system. There was a package at some point that confused setup's versioning logic, so setup stored a very long version number for it. The package is long gone from the mirrors, but if the OP was unlucky enough to update while it was still available, he has a corrupt line in his /etc/setup/installed.db. Since it's a plain text file, he can just edit it and remove that line (it should be easy to spot). HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Setup column far too wide
There was a package at some point that confused setup's versioning logic, so setup stored a very long version number for it. The package is long gone from the mirrors, but if the OP was unlucky enough to update while it was still available, he has a corrupt line in his /etc/setup/installed.db. Since it's a plain text file, he can just edit it and remove that line (it should be easy to spot). HTH, Igor Thank you very much! I was having the same problem and the offending package was libopenldap2-2-15 and my installed.db had the following line (please excuse the line wrap): libopenldap2-2-15 libopenldap2-2-15-2-15-2-15-2-15-2-15-2-15-2-15-2-15-2-15-2-15-2-15-2-15-2-15-2-15-2-15-2-15-2-15-2-15-2-15-2-15-2-15-2-15-2-15-2-15-2-15-2-15-2-15-2-15-2-15-2-15-2-15-2-15-2-15-2-15-2-15-2-15-2-15-2-15-2-15-2-15-2-15-2-15-2-15-2-15-2-15-2-15-2.2.15-1.tar.bz2 0 I removed it and the problem went away. Thanks again Igor, Pete -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
