Paul King wrote the following on Thursday, September 01, 2011 11:00 PM > I am new to this list, and have noticed a number of problems with the > download and configuration. The biggest problem is the download right > now. > > When the download returned an "incomplete" error, the overall progress > on the title bar showed 128% (yes, really) and 100% for the current > package; and the packae that it was working on was, I think, "zint". > This is on the second attempt. On the first attempt, it was > downloading zsh while the overall progress bar still registered 0%. > Since I noticed that the packages are downloaded in alphabetical order, > the download seems to always crap out near the end, asking me to start > from the beginning. Very frustrating. This is literally a waste of > hours of work. > > Checking both setup logs, there was no actual error message recorded > both times. But it does say where it offered me a dialog box, 7 hours > into the download, saying that the download was incomplete. > > The best thing to do is to find where it has a comprehensive list of > what I chose, and then download whatever comes after, in the same > directory structure.
The following is a work around. Not elegant, but it might work for you. Long ago, in the days of dialup, I occasionally had similar problems when attempting large downloads with setup. My solution was two-fold. (1) I didn't download everything at once. I'd download just a few packages at a time. (2) I split up download and install. I'd do the "download only"s and then do the install. Note that when setup gives the error messages, I believe that the previous packages are downloaded. Check. If they are, you don't have to download everything during your next try. Also note that I found at that time that sometimes setup got a package totally download but hung on renaming the temporary file to tar.bz2 (though it was probably tar.gz back then). If you find a misnamed file in the directory, try renaming it and see if that will install. If it is incomplete, setup will refuse and complain. As I said, that was years ago. No promises. Good luck, - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer -- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! And you'll get a free "Love Thy Logs" t-shirt when you download Logger. Secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsisghtdev2dev _______________________________________________ Cygwin-ports-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cygwin-ports-general
