RE: setup troubles: Download incomplete
Hi, sorry for the late follow-up. new text is at the end -Original Message- From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 06 December 2002 13:54 To: Kris Thielemans; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: setup troubles: Download incomplete At 04:57 AM 12/6/2002, Kris Thielemans wrote: Thanks Larry, Disk space could still be the problem. Depends on what you still need to download and how big it is. ok. I'll try to clean up more. A funny error message though. Here's another funny error message: After answering the question Download incomplete: do you want to try again? with no, setup starts to install the packages that it already got. I then get the occasional dialog box Can't open (null) for reading: No such file Needless to say, I've never seen that before, so it's probably because a file wasn't downloaded correctly because of my lack of disk space. Looks to me that a 0 pointer is passed to sprintf though... Right. The download incomplete message indicates that not everything you requested could be downloaded. Generally, you just want to try again but if you say you don't, setup just switches to the installation mode to install what it did download. Are you using the current setup.exe from www.cygwin.com? I thought all the messages about Can't open (null) for reading: No such file were gone now. Perhaps I'm wrong. I get this error both with the current setup from the website and with setup-2.303. I still get it even after freeing more disk space, such that setup doesn't complain anymore while downloading files. (I'm doing a Reinstall by the way, my system is thoroughly messed up). Kris -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
RE: setup troubles: Download incomplete
Thanks Larry, Disk space could still be the problem. Depends on what you still need to download and how big it is. ok. I'll try to clean up more. A funny error message though. Here's another funny error message: After answering the question Download incomplete: do you want to try again? with no, setup starts to install the packages that it already got. I then get the occasional dialog box Can't open (null) for reading: No such file Needless to say, I've never seen that before, so it's probably because a file wasn't downloaded correctly because of my lack of disk space. Looks to me that a 0 pointer is passed to sprintf though... On the disk space front, can anyone tell me why setup stores copies of files in subdirectories named after the mirror. This means that I end up with several copies of the same .tar.bz2 files, as I often have to switch mirrors (they seem to be very busy once in a while). If you're really looking for details, check the email archives on this. The reason for the differing directories, what they contain, and even utilities for cleaning them up have been discussed before. However, you should not be ending up with the exact same files from each mirror, at least if you keep your set of mirrors constant. well, I did have multiple copies of the same file. I've been using 3 mirrors. I don't think I've been doing something special, but who knows (is aborting an installation special? It might be). I can't give you any details, as this happened over the years, and I never checked before. Also, I deleted all of the mirror files except one to save disk space... Thanks a lot Kris Thielemans (kris.thielemans at ic.ac.uk) Imaging Research Solutions Ltd Cyclotron Building Hammersmith Hospital Du Cane Road London W12 ONN, United Kingdom web site address: http://www.irsl.org/~kris -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: setup troubles: Download incomplete
Kris Thielemans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well, I did have multiple copies of the same file. I've been using 3 mirrors. I don't think I've been doing something special, but who knows (is aborting an installation special? It might be). I can't give you any details, as this happened over the years, and I never checked before. Also, I deleted all of the mirror files except one to save disk space... clean_setup.pl from: http://home.ix.netcom.com/~mchase/zip/ may help you keep your files organized. I use it all the time. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
RE: setup troubles: Download incomplete
On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 20:57, Kris Thielemans wrote: well, I did have multiple copies of the same file. I've been using 3 mirrors. In the list of mirrors, did you ctrl-click to select the 3, or did you single click, thus choosing a single, different mirror. Setup only prevents duplicates when it knows all the mirrors you are using. Rob -- --- GPG key available at: http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt. --- signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
RE: setup troubles: Download incomplete
In the list of mirrors, did you ctrl-click to select the 3, or did you single click, thus choosing a single, different mirror. Setup only prevents duplicates when it knows all the mirrors you are using. ah. sorry. didn't know that. I single click another mirror whenever I have trouble with the current one. Thanks! Kris -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
RE: setup troubles: Download incomplete
At 04:57 AM 12/6/2002, Kris Thielemans wrote: Thanks Larry, Disk space could still be the problem. Depends on what you still need to download and how big it is. ok. I'll try to clean up more. A funny error message though. Here's another funny error message: After answering the question Download incomplete: do you want to try again? with no, setup starts to install the packages that it already got. I then get the occasional dialog box Can't open (null) for reading: No such file Needless to say, I've never seen that before, so it's probably because a file wasn't downloaded correctly because of my lack of disk space. Looks to me that a 0 pointer is passed to sprintf though... Right. The download incomplete message indicates that not everything you requested could be downloaded. Generally, you just want to try again but if you say you don't, setup just switches to the installation mode to install what it did download. Are you using the current setup.exe from www.cygwin.com? I thought all the messages about Can't open (null) for reading: No such file were gone now. Perhaps I'm wrong. On the disk space front, can anyone tell me why setup stores copies of files in subdirectories named after the mirror. This means that I end up with several copies of the same .tar.bz2 files, as I often have to switch mirrors (they seem to be very busy once in a while). If you're really looking for details, check the email archives on this. The reason for the differing directories, what they contain, and even utilities for cleaning them up have been discussed before. However, you should not be ending up with the exact same files from each mirror, at least if you keep your set of mirrors constant. well, I did have multiple copies of the same file. I've been using 3 mirrors. I don't think I've been doing something special, but who knows (is aborting an installation special? It might be). I can't give you any details, as this happened over the years, and I never checked before. Also, I deleted all of the mirror files except one to save disk space... Right. I think Rob got this point across to you. You need to pick multiple mirrors at the same time in order for setup to understand that it should only download a package if it doesn't exist in another mirror's directory already. Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: setup troubles: Download incomplete
Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought all the messages about Can't open (null) for reading: No such file were gone now. Perhaps I'm wrong. I'm afraid so. I've seen this message occasionally (unfortunately, since I don't do much downloading with setup, I haven't got around to nailing down precise reproduction steps.) [With recent setup, BTW] You need to pick multiple mirrors at the same time in order for setup to understand that it should only download a package if it doesn't exist in another mirror's directory already. True. Maybe this is a bug? Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: setup troubles: Download incomplete
(doesnt point out anything about which list setup discussions is supposed to be on...) I accidently deleted the email i was going to reply to - so no context sorry... But I thought I would point out another lovely feature of the continuing to install after after incomplete downloads - as well as the null messages - packages get uninstalled that dont have a correct replacement package. I've managed to end up without a cygwin dll a couple of times because of this ... since oddly - the cygwin dll download seems to have a much higher chance of dieing then any of the others - typically at 99% too... (obviously a conspiracy here... i can feel it :P) Gareth. _ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
setup troubles: Download incomplete
Hi, I've decided to reinstall my whole cygwin (I interrupted a 'default' setup earlier on, and that seems to have left my system in an undefined state :-( ). So, I used the setup on the cygwin website, clicked till the All category showed Reinstall, and off it went downloading stuff. At some point it flashed up a dialog box Download incomplete. Try again? Yes! I say. It goes through the initial screens, starts to download, and immediately says Download incomplete. Try again? and so on. This happens with both the default setup and the latest beta setup-2.303.exe. I thought it might have to do with out of disk space, but I'm no sure. When I cleaned up a bit, setup did download some more stuff, but then I got the same message (still 93 MB free). Any help will be appreciated, because I now have a plain NT machine here, no cygwin on it. Disaster! On the disk space front, can anyone tell me why setup stores copies of files in subdirectories named after the mirror. This means that I end up with several copies of the same .tar.bz2 files, as I often have to switch mirrors (they seem to be very busy once in a while). Kris Thielemans (kris.thielemans at ic.ac.uk) Imaging Research Solutions Ltd Cyclotron Building Hammersmith Hospital Du Cane Road London W12 ONN, United Kingdom web site address: http://www.irsl.org/~kris -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
RE: setup troubles: Download incomplete
From: Kris Thielemans [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 17:13:31 - To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: setup troubles: Download incomplete snip This happens with both the default setup and the latest beta setup-2.303.exe. I thought it might have to do with out of disk space, but I'm no sure. When I cleaned up a bit, setup did download some more stuff, but then I got the same message (still 93 MB free). Disk space could still be the problem. Depends on what you still need to download and how big it is. On the disk space front, can anyone tell me why setup stores copies of files in subdirectories named after the mirror. This means that I end up with several copies of the same .tar.bz2 files, as I often have to switch mirrors (they seem to be very busy once in a while). If you're really looking for details, check the email archives on this. The reason for the differing directories, what they contain, and even utilities for cleaning them up have been discussed before. However, you should not be ending up with the exact same files from each mirror, at least if you keep your set of mirrors constant. Pick the few that work best for you and don't change them. That's the easiest solution for this problem. If you see something that would suggest that a persistent set of mirrors will give you the same package files for each mirror, please provide the list with a list of steps that shows this behavior. Thanks, Larry Kris Thielemans (kris.thielemans at ic.ac.uk) Imaging Research Solutions Ltd Cyclotron Building Hammersmith Hospital Du Cane Road London W12 ONN, United Kingdom web site address: http://www.irsl.org/~kris -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
