Re: Upgrade from 1.5.25 to 1.7.1 fails.

2009-12-23 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 12/23/2009 06:53 PM, Harry G McGavran Jr wrote: On 12/23/2009 05:15 PM, Harry G McGavran Jr wrote: 2. Is this a local or network drive? Local -- FAT32 I'm going to guess this is the problem. Any chance you can try again and point to a NTFS formatted partition? Yes, that f

Re: Upgrade from 1.5.25 to 1.7.1 fails.

2009-12-23 Thread Harry G McGavran Jr
>On 12/23/2009 05:15 PM, Harry G McGavran Jr wrote: >> >> 2. Is this a local or network drive? >> >>Local -- FAT32 >> > >I'm going to guess this is the problem. Any chance you can try again and >point to a NTFS formatted partition? Yes, that fixed it. I'd sure like to be able to kee

Re: Upgrade from 1.5.25 to 1.7.1 fails.

2009-12-23 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 12/23/2009 05:15 PM, Harry G McGavran Jr wrote: 2. Is this a local or network drive? Local -- FAT32 I'm going to guess this is the problem. Any chance you can try again and point to a NTFS formatted partition? -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners

Re: Upgrade from 1.5.25 to 1.7.1 fails.

2009-12-23 Thread Harry G McGavran Jr
>OK, you're getting nowhere fast. I don't see the file sizes being created as >anything but 0. So here are a few questions: > > > 1. Can you create a file in any of these directories yourself? Yes > 2. Is this a local or network drive? Local -- FAT32 > 3. Does it work better if you create

Re: Upgrade from 1.5.25 to 1.7.1 fails.

2009-12-23 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 12/23/2009 04:48 PM, Harry G McGavran Jr wrote: Here's setup.log.full just after I tried setup again following the last mkdir I did... ftp> 227 Entering Passive Mode (204,152,191,39,247,39). ftp> 150 Opening BINARY mode data con

Re: Upgrade from 1.5.25 to 1.7.1 fails.

2009-12-23 Thread Harry G McGavran Jr
Here's setup.log.full just after I tried setup again following the last mkdir I did... 2009/12/23 14:34:32 Starting cygwin install, version 2.673 2009/12/23 14:34:32 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/setup.rc) failed 2 No such file or d

Re: Upgrade from 1.5.25 to 1.7.1 fails.

2009-12-23 Thread Harry G McGavran Jr
After the try again suggestion failing, I cd'd to G:/installs/cygwin/packages/ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwi n%2f/release and did a mkdir -p GNOME/_obsolete/atk. Then I tried setup again, and it got past that package and came to another where it claimed it couldn't write to b

Re: Upgrade from 1.5.25 to 1.7.1 fails.

2009-12-23 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 12/23/2009 04:19 PM, Harry G McGavran Jr wrote: I just did, but I still get the same error OK, if another mirror doesn't help either, you'll need to look at /var/log/setup.log.full for a clue. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc.

Re: Upgrade from 1.5.25 to 1.7.1 fails.

2009-12-23 Thread Harry G McGavran Jr
>Try again. ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/release/GNOME/ shows that >directory now. > > >-- >Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com >RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office >216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX >H

Re: Upgrade from 1.5.25 to 1.7.1 fails.

2009-12-23 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 12/23/2009 02:24 PM, Harry G McGavran Jr wrote: Updates using 1.5.25 have always worked, so I had assumed my setup configuration files had managed to stay intact. But, after reading the new User Guide I tried the new setup.exe and after about the third package download from ftp://mirrors.ker

Upgrade from 1.5.25 to 1.7.1 fails.

2009-12-23 Thread Harry G McGavran Jr
Updates using 1.5.25 have always worked, so I had assumed my setup configuration files had managed to stay intact. But, after reading the new User Guide I tried the new setup.exe and after about the third package download from ftp://mirrors.kernel.org I got: Can't open G:/installs/cygwin/package