On Wed, 18 Dec 2019 10:23:16, Henning wrote: > On 16/12/2019 20:11, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: > > > > * cygwin-3.1.0-1 > > * cygwin-devel-3.1.0-1 > > * cygwin-doc-3.1.0-1 > > After cygwin-3.0.7 all attempts to update (to test or normal versions) > terminated with errors: > > Package: 0/Perpetual > 0p_000_autorebase.dash exit code -1073741819 > 0p_update-info-dir.dash exit code -1073741819 [snip]
> OS: Windows 8.1 Professional 32bit [snip] > setup.log extract: > > > 2019/12/17 09:58:10 Starting cygwin install, version 2.897 > 2019/12/17 09:58:10 User has backup/restore rights > 2019/12/17 09:58:10 Current Directory: U:\usr\pkg\cygwin > 2019/12/17 09:58:10 Could not open service McShield for query, start and > stop. McAfee may not be installed, or we don't have access. > 2019/12/17 09:58:13 source: network install > 2019/12/17 09:58:13 root: U:\ system .. for the record ... Both 32-bits and 64-bits installations fail if one installs in the root of a drive as result of a modification made by Ken Brown on 2019 09 25. This statement also applies to: - https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2020-01/msg00111.html ( Cygwin 3.1.X Fatal Errors - add_item ("\??\C:", "/", ...) failed, errno 22 ) Note: I am not saying that the modification made by Ken Brown is in error, but that "something else" has to be changed as well ... (init_cygheap::init_installation_root() in winsup/cygwin/cyheap.cc ?????) Ken Brown's modification: - https://cygwin.com/git/gitweb.cgi?p=newlib-cygwin.git;a=commit;f=winsup/cygwin/path.cc;h=283cb372e4e25d1d11123d98e3d14e85b525e48d ( Cygwin: normalize_win32_path: improve error checking ) Item 2.5 of the FAQ advices NOT to install in the root of a drive (but it does forbid to do so) - https://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.setup.c Item 2.5 ends with "(In the past, there had been genuine bugs that would cause problems for people who installed in C:\, but we believe those are gone now.)" This is no longer true: the past is back ... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
