On Sun, 30 Apr 2006, James McLaughlin wrote: > Reading through old mailing list postings, I notice > quite a few other people occasionally get this > problem, but I haven't found any advice except to > change mirrors - on the rare occasions anyone thinks > they found a way round it - and as my attempts to do > this lately involve a lot of failures to conect, > followed by attempts which fill setup.log and > setup.log.full with a lot of lines like > > 2006/04/30 14:18:05 io_stream_cygfile: fopen failed 2 > No such file or directory > > I'd welcome some advice on mirrors that people know > work OK and on whether I should try something other > than Direct Connection. > > The problem came to light after I'd used > http%3a%2f%2fsources-redhat.mirror.redwire.net%2fcygwin > as my mirror, when my attempts to "Install from Local > Directory" on another machine failed due to URLScheme > Not Registered. Judging by the contents of setup.log, > this will also occur if I try to install what I've > just downloaded from > http%3a%2f%2fmirrors.dotsrc.org%2fcygwin. Plus, one of > the mirrors I've never been able to connect to is the > one in the UK. > > The version of setup I've been using is 2.510.2.2. As > setup.log and .log.full are about 600K each in size, > you'll understand why I haven't attached them. > > Finally, this is what the error dialog looks like, > although the problems clearly occur at the download > stage rather than the install stage: > > Cygwin Setup X > Fatal Error: Uncaught Exception > Thread: install > Type: St16invalid_argument > Message: URLScheme not registered! > > OK > > On one of my various attempts to install the updates > I'd downloaded, I ran into one of those "setup.exe has > performed an illegal operation and will be shut down" > dialogs after pressing OK.
Both of these problems have been fixed in the newer versions of setup. Try a setup snapshot (<http://cygwin.com/setup/snapshots/>). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
