Re: setup.exe 2.573.2.3 signature failure
George R Nelson wrote: As a newcomer to cygwin, my attempts to download from ctgwin.com or a number of mirror sites all failed with signature errors. WHy do I get this problem? The error I get is: Setup.ini signature http://cygwin.com/setup.bz2.sig from http//cygwin.com failed to verify. I have managed to download cygwin using the setup.exe from redhat. So what were you downloading it with before? 'setup.exe' is the prescribed way to download (for installation) and/or install. If you want a mirror, you want to use another tool but barring that, stick with 'setup.exe'. On a related topic, is there any way to change the URL for the download? Or do you just add download sites then highlight the one you wish to use? There are plenty of download sites in the list to choose from. But if you want another one not listed, you can add it by typing it into the edit control below the list and clicking Add. Then you can select it from the list. You can select up to 4 from the list. Finally, I am trying to build some C sources using cygwin but the build fails as it is not finding some libraries: libsocket.a, libnsl.a and libxnet.a. I've searched both the package lists and the installed libraries without success. I am sure that the functions defined in these libraries do exist in the cygwin distribution but may be in differently named libraries. Can anybody help? Not significantly with that description. I'd recommend reading the problem reporting guidelines and trying again if you're still having problems. The guidelines can be found at the link below. Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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.exe 2.573.2.3 signature failure
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com wrote: George R Nelson wrote: As a newcomer to cygwin, my attempts to download from ctgwin.com or a number of mirror sites all failed with signature errors. WHy do I get this problem? The error I get is: Setup.ini signature http://cygwin.com/setup.bz2.sig from http//cygwin.com failed to verify. I have managed to download cygwin using the setup.exe from redhat. So what were you downloading it with before? 'setup.exe' is the prescribed way to download (for installation) and/or install. If you want a mirror, you want to use another tool but barring that, stick with 'setup.exe'. I downloaded setup.exe from the cygwin site - my apologies as I presumed that was assumed. This failed as described with the signature error. I then downloaded setup.exe from the Redhat site and that worked on the Redhat site. The setup.exe from Cygwin did not work on the Redhat site or any of the mirrors I tried. Since I had no idea how to select a site from the list of sites I had added, I wasn't able to check if the Redhat setup.exe worked on other systems. It was only while making this request that it occurred to me that I might be able to select one from the list by highlighting it. On a related topic, is there any way to change the URL for the download? Or do you just add download sites then highlight the one you wish to use? There are plenty of download sites in the list to choose from. But if you want another one not listed, you can add it by typing it into the edit control below the list and clicking Add. Then you can select it from the list. You can select up to 4 from the list. The setup.exe I downloaded had an empty download list. I added cygwin.com and got the error described. I then added a mirror from the list on the ctgwin site and that too produced the same error. Likewise any mirror I picked from the site displayed the same signature error. The Redhat setup.exe had their own site added to the list already. Finally, I am trying to build some C sources using cygwin but the build fails as it is not finding some libraries: libsocket.a, libnsl.a and libxnet.a. I've searched both the package lists and the installed libraries without success. I am sure that the functions defined in these libraries do exist in the cygwin distribution but may be in differently named libraries. Can anybody help? Not significantly with that description. I'd recommend reading the problem reporting guidelines and trying again if you're still having problems. The guidelines can be found at the link below. I have read the submission guidlines and the installation documentation as well as searching the FAQ before submitting. I could find no details on the steps carried out by setup.exe or any explanation of the error I was getting. I have read the relevant portions of the user guide and all other links that I could follow from the initial description of how to get cygwin but could find nothing that described how to select a URL from the list that I had created. Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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/ -- 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.exe 2.573.2.3 signature failure
George R Nelson wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com wrote: ^^^ . Thanks. George R Nelson wrote: As a newcomer to cygwin, my attempts to download from ctgwin.com or a number of mirror sites all failed with signature errors. WHy do I get this problem? The error I get is: Setup.ini signature http://cygwin.com/setup.bz2.sig from http//cygwin.com failed to verify. I have managed to download cygwin using the setup.exe from redhat. So what were you downloading it with before? 'setup.exe' is the prescribed way to download (for installation) and/or install. If you want a mirror, you want to use another tool but barring that, stick with 'setup.exe'. I downloaded setup.exe from the cygwin site - my apologies as I presumed that was assumed. This failed as described with the signature error. From http://cygwin.com/: The signature for setup.exe can be used to verify the validity of this binary using this public key. Sounds like your download didn't work for some reason. Try again. See the link below for background: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2008-08/msg1.html I then downloaded setup.exe from the Redhat site and that worked on the Redhat site. The setup.exe from Cygwin did not work on the Redhat site or any of the mirrors I tried. Cygwin != Red Hat. Use Cygwin's site for Cygwin and support from this site. Since I had no idea how to select a site from the list of sites I had added, I wasn't able to check if the Redhat setup.exe worked on other systems. It was only while making this request that it occurred to me that I might be able to select one from the list by highlighting it. From http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-net.html#setup-mirror: Since there is no way of knowing from where you will be downloading Cygwin, you need to choose at least one mirror site. Cygwin mirrors are geographically distributed around the world; check the list at http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html to find one near you. You can select multiple mirrors by holding down CTRL and clicking on each one. On a related topic, is there any way to change the URL for the download? Or do you just add download sites then highlight the one you wish to use? There are plenty of download sites in the list to choose from. But if you want another one not listed, you can add it by typing it into the edit control below the list and clicking Add. Then you can select it from the list. You can select up to 4 from the list. The setup.exe I downloaded had an empty download list. I added cygwin.com and got the error described. I then added a mirror from the list on the ctgwin site and that too produced the same error. Likewise any mirror I picked from the site displayed the same signature error. The Redhat setup.exe had their own site added to the list already. Finally, I am trying to build some C sources using cygwin but the build fails as it is not finding some libraries: libsocket.a, libnsl.a and libxnet.a. I've searched both the package lists and the installed libraries without success. I am sure that the functions defined in these libraries do exist in the cygwin distribution but may be in differently named libraries. Can anybody help? Not significantly with that description. I'd recommend reading the problem reporting guidelines and trying again if you're still having problems. The guidelines can be found at the link below. I have read the submission guidlines and the installation documentation as well as searching the FAQ before submitting. I could find no details on the steps carried out by setup.exe or any explanation of the error I was getting. I have read the relevant portions of the user guide and all other links that I could follow from the initial description of how to get cygwin but could find nothing that described how to select a URL from the list that I had created. See the User's Guide link above. I think if you read it carefully, it's pretty clear that you can select from the list of mirrors. Also, although 'setup.exe' does have a non-standard control for package selection that has been known to throw some people off, the mirrors list is a standard Windows list box. So despite the User's Guide not taking you by the hand and walking you through the selection of a mirror in the list, generally speaking I think it's fairly explicit. I'm guessing that you just glossed over this part and/or got confused by your attempt to use the 'setup.exe' you found somewhere on the Red Hat site. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in
Re: setup.exe 2.573.2.3 signature failure
On 01/16/2009, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: George R Nelson wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com wrote: ^^^ . Thanks. Ugh! should have been http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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.exe 2.573.2.3 signature failure
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com wrote: George R Nelson wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com wrote: ^^^ . Thanks. George R Nelson wrote: As a newcomer to cygwin, my attempts to download from ctgwin.com or a number of mirror sites all failed with signature errors. WHy do I get this problem? The error I get is: Setup.ini signature http://cygwin.com/setup.bz2.sig from http//cygwin.com failed to verify. I have managed to download cygwin using the setup.exe from redhat. So what were you downloading it with before? 'setup.exe' is the prescribed way to download (for installation) and/or install. If you want a mirror, you want to use another tool but barring that, stick with 'setup.exe'. I downloaded setup.exe from the cygwin site - my apologies as I presumed that was assumed. This failed as described with the signature error. From http://cygwin.com/: The signature for setup.exe can be used to verify the validity of this binary using this public key. Sounds like your download didn't work for some reason. Try again. See the link below for background:# I have tried again and again and again. Each time I use the setup.exe from the cygwin site it fails due to a signature error. This is the purpose of this request - to find out why that was happening which is why I went to Redhat to try to get a version of Cygwin I could download See comment below. http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2008-08/msg1.html I then downloaded setup.exe from the Redhat site and that worked on the Redhat site. The setup.exe from Cygwin did not work on the Redhat site or any of the mirrors I tried. Cygwin != Red Hat. Use Cygwin's site for Cygwin and support from this site. Did I ever say Cygwin = Redhat. I think if you read carefully that I said I downloaded Cygwin from the Redhat site (following a link on the Cygwin home page - third link down on the left-hand column). The Redhat site has a version of setup.exe that presumably was built from the Cygwin setup.exe sources but customised for Redhat. From the User Guide, chapter 2: Choosing packages there is a link to the setup.exe home page which takes you to - oh wait - http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/setup.html! But then maybe you glossed over what I said. Since I had no idea how to select a site from the list of sites I had added, I wasn't able to check if the Redhat setup.exe worked on other systems. It was only while making this request that it occurred to me that I might be able to select one from the list by highlighting it. From http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-net.html#setup-mirror: Since there is no way of knowing from where you will be downloading Cygwin, you need to choose at least one mirror site. Cygwin mirrors are geographically distributed around the world; check the list at http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html to find one near you. You can select multiple mirrors by holding down CTRL and clicking on each one. On a related topic, is there any way to change the URL for the download? Or do you just add download sites then highlight the one you wish to use? There are plenty of download sites in the list to choose from. But if you want another one not listed, you can add it by typing it into the edit control below the list and clicking Add. Then you can select it from the list. You can select up to 4 from the list. The setup.exe I downloaded had an empty download list. I added cygwin.com and got the error described. I then added a mirror from the list on the ctgwin site and that too produced the same error. Likewise any mirror I picked from the site displayed the same signature error. The Redhat setup.exe had their own site added to the list already. Finally, I am trying to build some C sources using cygwin but the build fails as it is not finding some libraries: libsocket.a, libnsl.a and libxnet.a. I've searched both the package lists and the installed libraries without success. I am sure that the functions defined in these libraries do exist in the cygwin distribution but may be in differently named libraries. Can anybody help? Not significantly with that description. I'd recommend reading the problem reporting guidelines and trying again if you're still having problems. The guidelines can be found at the link below. I have read the submission guidlines and the installation documentation as well as searching the FAQ before submitting. I could find no details on the steps carried out by setup.exe or any explanation of the error I was getting. I have read the relevant portions of the user guide and all other links that I could follow from the initial description of how to get cygwin but could find nothing that described how to select a URL from the list that I had created. See the User's Guide
Re: setup.exe 2.573.2.3 signature failure
On 01/16/2009, George R Nelson wrote: There's only few points I wanted to follow-up on here, since it seems like you've gotten resolutions to your start-up issues in one form or another. Did I ever say Cygwin = Redhat. I think if you read carefully that I said I downloaded Cygwin from the Redhat site (following a link on the Cygwin home page - third link down on the left-hand column). Actually, I didn't say that you said Cygwin = Red Hat (and at the risk of being accused of being antagonistic, it is Red Hat, not Redhat.) The fact that Red Hat has an association with the project and has their own version of the software that they distribute and sell support for is exactly the point I was trying to make. I'm not suggesting that you were somehow inappropriately looking at Red Hat's offering, just that you were really mixing two separate things that shouldn't be mixed and that doing so wasn't going to help you. While I think this is clear to you now, I wanted to answer it for others that might come across this thread and have similar confusion. My apologies for taking up time and bandwidth. I have an installer that works and will resolve any other issues I have with Cygwin myself. It seems you've misinterpreted my responses. I was not lambasting you for not reading documentation. I was pointing you to Cygwin documentation that addressed some of the specific issues you raised. As you say, there is allot of documentation there and there are allot of posters here who don't read it or even if they do, miss some key points. So I was pointing to some specific things that I thought would help you with some specific problems you mentioned. But my pointer to http://cygwin.com/problems.html was actually in response to your general inquiry for help with some C sources you were building and the issues you were having getting things to link. Perhaps I needed to be more direct there but I try hard not to cover the same ground that is already covered in existing links. OK, my bad. Let's see if I can rectify that with you. You need to provide specific code, command line invocations of the compiler/linker, and error statements that are emitted in this process, in addition to basic boot-strap configuration information requested at the above link, in order for someone on this list to take a stab at what the solution to your problem might be. Well, that's all I can do. I'll bow out of this thread now, in case you want to continue it with someone else, taking into account the information I mentioned that will be needed for someone else on this list to continue fruitfully. I would ask, if I could, that you read this link before replying: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR I realize that I only included the placeholder in my original reply to you and that this was the reply that you felt was lambasting you, so you had little incentive to heed my follow-up which included it. But other responders to you would likely appreciate the courtesy. Good luck, -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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.exe 2.573.2.3 signature failure
George R Nelson wrote: As a newcomer to cygwin, my attempts to download from ctgwin.com or a number of mirror sites all failed with signature errors. WHy do I get this problem? The error I get is: Setup.ini signature http://cygwin.com/setup.bz2.sig from http//cygwin.com failed to verify. You can't actually install directly from the main cygwin.com site! You have to use one of the mirrors. The error message is misleading; it should have complained earlier when it couldn't download setup.bz2, and not gone on to try (and fail) to verify the non-existent signature for the non-existent file! On a related topic, is there any way to change the URL for the download? Or do you just add download sites then highlight the one you wish to use? Well, you shouldn't just add sites by guesswork at all! The standard list of site should be filled out with the entries derived from http://cygwin.com/mirrors.lst, and you should just select one from the list by highlighting it. Reading some of your replies downthread, I think the problem is twofold: 1. For some unknown reason, setup.exe failed to fetch mirrors.txt and therefore couldn't populate the list of default sites. 2. When you started adding mirror sites manually, you got the syntax wrong. The links on http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html just point to the front page of the mirror sites, if you enter them in the text box in setup.exe it won't work because it needs the full path to where the cygwin release directory lives on the mirror. If you look at http://cygwin.com/mirrors.lst in a browser, you'll see that the full syntax usually includes a directory path as well as the mirror name. cheers, DaveK -- 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/
