Still hosed by setup problem

["David A. Cobb" <Superbiskit at cox dot net>]

Well, now I am completely out of business!

This is more data regarding the "URL Scheme Not Registered" failure in 
SETUP, last reports were around 9/18.

In the last progress message posted before the crash, I spotted a 
package name (from gnome) that was one character short at the left-hand 
end.  I did a search on that name and found that I still had a URL-named 
directory with a setup.ini in an old format - from cygnome.sf.net, 
IIRC.  I removed that and tried again -- no luck.

Next I completely removed my local package repository and started with a 
new set of mirrors.  Same ending.

Today, I chewed my foot off in hope of getting out of this trap.  I 
expunged every bit of my cygwin installation, and the repository and 
started again -- the one thing I kept was my registry mount table.
I downloaded a batch -- probably everything (I let setup default).  The 
download completes correctly, as far as I can tell.
Then "Install from Local Directory" -- BANG it immediately crashes with 
the "URL Scheme Not Registered" error.
Now that doesn't make much sense to me; if the download is completed, 
where does "URL Scheme" come into the picture?

Anyway, not much hope of getting anywhere now -- I have no cygwin at all. 

I do, however, have a mingw32 installation, so I may be able to build a 
debug version and run it under mingw32-gdb.  The last time, that didn't 
tell us anything. 

Any information about where that error message originates would help.

--
David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate
"By God's Grace, I am a Christian man; by my actions a great sinner." -- The Way of a Pilgrim: R.French, Tr.
Life is too short to tolerate crappy software!



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