Re: setup.exe 2.510.2.2, 2.427 and 2.457 consistently failing, on win2000, sp4

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 09:42:08PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 10:09:44AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 08:43:06PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > > > > > On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > i check c:\cygwin\var\log\setup.log and it is full of
> > > > > > > io_stream_cygfile: fopen failed 2 No such file or directory,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > What about c:\cygwin\var\log\setup.log.full?  It should have more
> > > > > > information (in particular, the io_stream_cygfile messages should be
> > > > > > preceded by the names of the files they correspond to).
> >
> > Ok, I was wrong -- setup didn't print the filenames to the log, period.
> > The version I'm going to ask you to try, however, does.  Please post the
> > resulting log file in the same web location (and thanks for being
> > considerate).
>
>  done.
>
>  http://hands.com/~lkcl/cygwin

Umm, doesn't look like you actually tried to install anything...  Did you
simply switch to partial view and then cancel?  It would be interesting to
see what the log looks like for a real install -- download from internet,
etc.

>  good _god_ that's possibly the largest compression ratio i've ever seen.
>  385k down to 1316 bytes.

It's *VERY* repetitive. :-)

>  now why didn't i compress that _before_ scp'ing it...

:-)
	Igor
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