On Jun 19 14:38, Mark Harig wrote: > While running setup-1.7.exe (with no arguments) from a cygwin 1.5 bash > shell prompt, the following (error?) messages were displayed: > > io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/installed.db) failed 2 No such file > or directory > io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/last-cache) failed 2 No such file or > directory > io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/timestamp) failed 2 No such file or > directory > io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/mirrors-lst) failed 2 No such file > or directory > > Are these messages expected? Can they be safely ignored? > Are they documented somewhere for cygwin users? > > I was not able to find a mention of them at > http://cygwin.com/1.7/faq/faq.setup.html or > http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/setup-net.html > > Also, during the installation of the (default set of) packages, the > following > error message was displayed: > > running: C:\cygwin-1.7\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile -c > /etc/postinstall/base-files-profile.sh > abnormal exit: exit code=-1073741819 > > I confirmed that all directories and files that > /etc/postinstall/base-files-profiles.sh > creates or installs exist. > > I re-ran setup-1.7.exe a second time (with no additional packages selected) > and found that none of the above messages were displayed.
They are harmless. Setup.exe tries to open these files the first time before it created them. So these messages are always expected on the first run of setup. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
