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RE: setup fails: "Can't open (null) for reading: No such file"
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: "Perry Hutchison" <perryh at pluto dot rain dot com>,<cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 17:14:27 +1000
- Subject: RE: setup fails: "Can't open (null) for reading: No such file"
What options did you select when running setup?
Why did you run a two-step install?
Please send in the logs from /var/log/setup.log and
/var/log/setup.log.full.
Rob
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Perry Hutchison [mailto:perryh@pluto.rain.com]
> Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2002 5:02 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: setup fails: "Can't open (null) for reading: No such file"
>
>
> About a month ago, I downloaded and installed a fairly
> minimal Cygwin subset. Tonight, I downloaded some additional
> packages. When I attempted to install them, setup produced a
> message box:
>
> Can't open (null) for reading: No such file
>
> Retrying the installation yields the same message.
>
> I found a couple of mentions of this message in the archives,
> but no explanation of what causes it or how to fix it. (I
> infer from the context that everyone involved in the
> discussion knows exactly what is going on, so no explanations
> are needed.)
>
> Is any recovery possible, or must I wipe the entire
> installation and start over?
>
> BTW I tried to post this to cygwin-apps as requested on the
> web page, but it bounced.
>
>
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