Hi, sorry for the late follow-up. new text is at the end
> -----Original Message----- > From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 06 December 2002 13:54 > To: Kris Thielemans; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: setup troubles: Download incomplete > > > At 04:57 AM 12/6/2002, Kris Thielemans wrote: > >Thanks Larry, > > > > > > > > Disk space could still be the problem. Depends on what you > still need to > > > download and how big it is. > > > > > > > > > >ok. I'll try to clean up more. > >A funny error message though. > > > >Here's another funny error message: > >After answering the question "Download incomplete: do you want to try > >again?" with no, setup starts to install the packages that it > already got. I > >then get the occasional dialog box > >"Can't open (null) for reading: No such file" > > > >Needless to say, I've never seen that before, so it's probably because a > >file wasn't downloaded correctly because of my lack of disk > space. Looks to > >me that a 0 pointer is passed to sprintf though... > > > Right. The download incomplete message indicates that not everything you > requested could be downloaded. Generally, you just want to try again but > if you say you don't, setup just switches to the installation mode to > install what it did download. > > Are you using the current setup.exe from www.cygwin.com? I > thought all the > messages about "Can't open (null) for reading: No such file" were > gone now. > Perhaps I'm wrong. > > > I get this error both with the current setup from the website and with setup-2.303. I still get it even after freeing more disk space, such that setup doesn't complain anymore while downloading files. (I'm doing a Reinstall by the way, my system is thoroughly messed up). Kris -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
