On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 07:23:55PM -0500, Patrick Spinler wrote:
>
>Hi,
>
>TLDR: cygwin install apparently doesn't check for adequate space prior
>to starting the install, and if it runs out during install spams
>misleading error dialogs while corrupting c:\cygwin.
>
>
>
>I'm attempting to install a 64 bit cygwin. Unfortunately, I can't
>attach a cygcheck since I haven't gotten to a working installation.
>
>I'm rsyncing a local cygwin repository from either the kernel.org mirror
>or the team-cymru.org mirror, most recently yesterday mar 19th
>(something I'm unfortunately required to do due to our servers normally
>being blocked from internet access). However, setup.exe reports that
>it's version 2.844.
>
>I'm selecting a full installation, that is, telling it to install
>everything.
>
>When I install, after a certain point in the installation, I start
>receiving error dialogs:
>
>Unable to extract
>/usr/src/debug/netpbm-10.61.02-1/converter/pbm/pktopbm.c -- corrupt package?
>
>When I click through these dialogs, I end up with a whole bunch of
>garbage files in my c:\cygwin directory. Like this (output trimmed to
>not line wrap):
>
>
>pjs11@ROETIV902A cygwin $ pwd
>/cygdrive/c/cygwin
>
>pjs11@ROETIV902A cygwin $ ls -1F
> pgm_freerow(outputRow);? }? }? pm_close(ifP);?
> pm_close(ifP);?? return 0;?}?*
> return print_pbm (in);?}??*
> dsDestroySource(sourceManagerP);?? free(cmdline.input_filespec
>(level))?? address++;? }? else? {?? if (y & heigh
>(stdout);?? return 0;?}?*
>);? }?? exit (0);?}??#endif /
>bin/
>costs = costs;???*mx = x * bitshift;???*my = y * bitshift
>e_header();? write_rle_data();? ?
>etc/
>home/
>lect the i least significant bits? of a bit string.?-------------
>lib/
>opt/
>s_timer, STOP) < frame_time) /
>tmp/
>usr/
>var/
>
>I should also mention that no checksum errors are reported during the
>install, and I've been able to manually verify the md5 checksums for the
>packages where it reports errors, so I'm pretty sure I have a good copy
>of the repository.
>
>Also, I note that if I restart the install, but deselect the packages it
>complains about, it'll happen again, just at a later set of packages.
>
>Independently, I note at this point that my disk drive is out of space.
> I theorize that all the errors I note above are due to this fact. For
>what it's worth, I'm starting this install with >9gb free, which I
>mistakenly assumed would be more than enough ...
>
>Assuming that a full disk is in fact the cause of the errors I'm seeing,
>can setup please check for available disk space, either just prior to
>kicking off the install, or at least stop the install when it receives a
>disk error due to running out of space and/or accurately report the
>cause of the error?
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2013-06/threads.html#00323
cgf
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