On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, bruno patin wrote: > Christopher, > > I'm not understanding really well what to do (you know my proficiency in > english is not so perfect as to understand really everything). I understand > that you think that to open for writing a name where the directory do no exist > could provoke problems. It would explain the non blocking exception (am I > right ?) that occurs and loops indefinitely (is it what you think ?). What of > the fact that the error occurs only after being able to write a given number > of file in this directory (around ten files where created) ? what of the fact > that when you do not install only one file before (like cron) you are able to > write one more file in this directory ? I'm not sufficiently proficient in the > cygwin coding to answer these questions. > > So my work is to begin a new complete install with the new packages. Do I have > to reload all of them ? only xorg related packages ? > > What I intend to do is begin again the first test described under with the > reloaded x11 files. Is it what you want ? > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > To summarize what I did when testing and the problems I saw (I do that not > only for repeating but also to have all the datas on only one mail) > > 1/ complete test > > I have a local version of all the cygwin distro (got at mirrors.sunsite.dk) > I begin by deleting my cygwin root on the disk but not the entries of the > registry > I launch setup selecting everything > > Arriving at the file: > > /usr/X11R6/share/doc/Cygwin/xorg-x11-fscl-6.8.1.0.README > > setup enters a loop delivering the log message one after the other indefintely > (view through ollydbg) > > .... > LOG : 1 Installing file > cygfile:///usr/X11R6/share/doc/Cygwin/xorg-x11-fscl-6.8.1.0.README for writing > LOG : 2 failed too open > cygfile:///usr/X11R6/share/doc/Cygwin/xorg-x11-fscl-6.8.1.0.README for writing > ..... > > The second message is issued through an exception > > You can see two things increasing with the same speed, the memory consumed and > the handlers. > when cancelled, the message issued by setup is > > "cannot open log file c:\cygwin/var/log/setup.log for writing" > > another box opens but disappear too fast for me to give you the message > > With this test, no setup.log is created at all > > This test has been conducted with these different changes: > > I changed the rights of the /var directory with chmod a+w with no effect > (because of the absence of setup) > I changed the TEMP and TMP variables values (erasing blanks of the names) > > 2/ successive setup > > I conducted a first setup without X11 and a second with only X11 .It worked > fine with setup.log created > > 3/ complete test with one file (cron) not installed > > The behaviour is exactly the same as in first test with only the file on which > it stopped as a difference. That is t loops on the next file to write: > > xorg-x11-fsrv-6.8.1.0.README > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Well, perhaps I forgot something but no one is perfect :-)
One question that should have been asked long before: is your disk full? Do you perhaps have quotas enabled? Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT