setup.exe won't update

Gary Johnson garyjohn@spk.agilent.com
Wed Oct 8 18:23:00 GMT 2008


On 2008-10-06, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> Gary Johnson wrote:
>> I have Cygwin installed on three PCs running Windows XP.  I run setup.exe 
>> periodically on all of them to keep the packages up to date.  When I did 
>> this last, a few days ago, setup.exe updated the openssl, grep and vim 
>> packages on two of the machines but the third reported that there was 
>> "Nothing to Install/Update".  That third machine still has the 2.5.1a-4 
>> version of grep while the other machines updated grep to 2.5.3-1, so I 
>> know at least that package is out of date.  I tried again this morning 
>> with the same results.
>>
>> All three machines are running setup.exe version 2.573.2.3.  I regularly 
>> use either ftp://cygwin.osuosl.org or ftp://mirrors.kernel.org as a 
>> download site for all three machines.  I tried both on the problematic 
>> machine with the same results.  I've had Cygwin installed for a couple of 
>> years on this machine with no problems.
>>
>> The only thing I can think of that has changed on that machine is that I 
>> recently bought an HP Media Vault 2120 and installed the bundled NTI 
>> Shadow backup software.  I thought I had successfully run setup.exe since 
>> then, but I'm not sure.  I have the Norton Internet Security suite on that 
>> machine as well, and while I haven't changed anything on it myself, it 
>> does regularly update itself.
>>
>> I've attached the output of cygcheck -srv.
>>
>> What can I do to get this setup.exe to find new packages again?
>
> Perhaps it did but you didn't stop your services before upgrading?
> If so, you'll need to reboot.  Otherwise, try uninstalling Norton
> and see if that helps.

Thanks for the suggestions.  I rebooted at the time and have 
rebooted several times since, for other reasons, but the behavior of 
setup.exe remains the same.

Unfortunately, I can't uninstall Norton on this machine.

That being said, I wouldn't think either one of those issues would 
have contributed to this problem.  (Yes, I know BLODA members can 
have anomalous effects on Cygwin, and I'm not trying to argue, I'm 
just trying to understand what could be going on so that I can find 
a solution.)

Running services usually cause problems during the installation 
phase, not during the package-detection phase.  I haven't gotten to  
the package installation phase since this problem began because 
setup.exe keeps telling me that there are no packages to update.

I thought that dodgy apps usually interfered with the cygwin DLL's 
interface to Windows, not with setup.exe, since the latter is a 
pretty straightforward Windows application, AIUI.

I did some searching for setup.exe debug hints and found out about 
/var/log/setup.log.full, so I've attached a copy of that.  I also 
looked in /etc/setup for any clues that might be there.  The 
installed.db file includes the line,

   grep grep-2.5.1a-4.tar.bz2 0

and the <Local Package Directory>/<server>/setup.ini files all 
contain "install:" lines for grep like this one:

   install: release/grep/grep-2.5.1a-4.tar.bz2 154056 790070ff3cbf093d2c54796a5b0e3f2e

The final digit after the - varies, but all are version 2.5.1a.  The 
latest package is grep-2.5.3-1.  (I'm just using grep as an 
example.)

So does any of that help explain what's going on?  Is there any 
other information I can provide?

Thanks,
Gary
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2008/10/08 08:19:33 Starting cygwin install, version 2.573.2.3
2008/10/08 08:19:33 Current Directory: C:\Documents and Settings\Gary Johnson\Application Data\Cygwin\packages
2008/10/08 08:19:33 Changing gid to Users
2008/10/08 08:19:33 Could not open service McShield for query, start and stop. McAfee may not be installed, or we don't have access.
2008/10/08 08:19:36 source: network install
2008/10/08 08:19:37 root: C:\cygwin binary system
2008/10/08 08:19:38 Selected local directory: C:\Documents and Settings\Gary Johnson\Application Data\Cygwin\packages
2008/10/08 08:19:40 net: IE5
Loaded cached mirror list
get_url_to_membuf http://cygwin.com/mirrors.lst
getUrlToStream http://cygwin.com/mirrors.lst
2008/10/08 08:19:42 site: ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/
get_url_to_membuf ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin//setup.bz2
getUrlToStream ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin//setup.bz2
get_url_to_membuf ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin//setup.bz2.sig
getUrlToStream ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin//setup.bz2.sig
2008/10/08 08:19:53 Visited: 173 nodes out of 1127.
2008/10/08 08:19:53 Dependency ordered install:
2008/10/08 08:19:53 cygwin
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libiconv2
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libintl8
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libintl3
2008/10/08 08:19:53 alternatives
2008/10/08 08:19:53 crypt
2008/10/08 08:19:53 texinfo
2008/10/08 08:19:53 _update-info-dir
2008/10/08 08:19:53 gawk
2008/10/08 08:19:53 tzcode
2008/10/08 08:19:53 coreutils
2008/10/08 08:19:53 terminfo
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libncurses8
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libreadline6
2008/10/08 08:19:53 bash
2008/10/08 08:19:53 ash
2008/10/08 08:19:53 findutils
2008/10/08 08:19:53 sed
2008/10/08 08:19:53 base-files
2008/10/08 08:19:53 base-passwd
2008/10/08 08:19:53 binutils
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libbz2_1
2008/10/08 08:19:53 bzip2
2008/10/08 08:19:53 cron
2008/10/08 08:19:53 editrights
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libpcre0
2008/10/08 08:19:53 grep
2008/10/08 08:19:53 csih
2008/10/08 08:19:53 ctags
2008/10/08 08:19:53 cygrunsrv
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libpopt0
2008/10/08 08:19:53 cygutils
2008/10/08 08:19:53 groff
2008/10/08 08:19:53 gzip
2008/10/08 08:19:53 termcap
2008/10/08 08:19:53 less
2008/10/08 08:19:53 man
2008/10/08 08:19:53 cygwin-doc
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libintl2
2008/10/08 08:19:53 diffutils
2008/10/08 08:19:53 e2fsprogs
2008/10/08 08:19:53 email
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libexpat1
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libexpat1-devel
2008/10/08 08:19:53 expat
2008/10/08 08:19:53 zlib
2008/10/08 08:19:53 file
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libfreetype26
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libfontconfig1
2008/10/08 08:19:53 fontconfig
2008/10/08 08:19:53 freeglut
2008/10/08 08:19:53 freetype2
2008/10/08 08:19:53 w32api
2008/10/08 08:19:53 mingw-runtime
2008/10/08 08:19:53 gcc-mingw-core
2008/10/08 08:19:53 gcc-core
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libgdbm4
2008/10/08 08:19:53 gdbm
2008/10/08 08:19:53 gettext
2008/10/08 08:19:53 ghostscript-fonts-other
2008/10/08 08:19:53 ghostscript-fonts-std
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libdb4.5
2008/10/08 08:19:53 perl
2008/10/08 08:19:53 which
2008/10/08 08:19:53 ghostscript-base
2008/10/08 08:19:53 glib
2008/10/08 08:19:53 lapack
2008/10/08 08:19:53 gsl
2008/10/08 08:19:53 openssl
2008/10/08 08:19:53 httping
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libfpx1
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libjpeg62
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libjasper1
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libjbig2
2008/10/08 08:19:53 liblcms1
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libpng12
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libtiff5
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libxml2
2008/10/08 08:19:53 pcre
2008/10/08 08:19:53 xorg-x11-bin-lndir
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libncurses7
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libintl1
2008/10/08 08:19:53 tar
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libexpat0
2008/10/08 08:19:53 run
2008/10/08 08:19:53 xterm
2008/10/08 08:19:53 X-startup-scripts
2008/10/08 08:19:53 xorg-x11-xwin
2008/10/08 08:19:53 xorg-x11-fnts
2008/10/08 08:19:53 xorg-x11-fenc
2008/10/08 08:19:53 xorg-x11-libs-data
2008/10/08 08:19:53 xorg-x11-etc
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libXft1
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libXft2
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libXft
2008/10/08 08:19:53 xorg-x11-bin
2008/10/08 08:19:53 xorg-x11-base
2008/10/08 08:19:53 xorg-x11-bin-dlls
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libImageMagick1
2008/10/08 08:19:53 ImageMagick
2008/10/08 08:19:53 inetutils
2008/10/08 08:19:53 ioperm
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libjbig1
2008/10/08 08:19:53 jbigkit
2008/10/08 08:19:53 lcms
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libcharset1
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libdb4.2
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libexpat-devel
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libfontenc1
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libgc
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libgdbm
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libgdbm-devel
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libgdbm3
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libglut3
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libICE6
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libiconv
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libintl
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libjasper1.701_0
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libncurses-devel
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libncurses5
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libncurses6
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libpcre
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libreadline4
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libreadline5
2008/10/08 08:19:53 librecode0
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libSM6
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libtiff4
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libusb-win32
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libwrap0
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libX11_6
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libXau6
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libXaw8
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libxcb1
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libXdmcp6
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libXext6
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libXmu6
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libXp6
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libXpm4
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libXrender1
2008/10/08 08:19:53 libXt6
2008/10/08 08:19:53 lndir
2008/10/08 08:19:53 login
2008/10/08 08:19:53 luit
2008/10/08 08:19:53 make
2008/10/08 08:19:53 mc
2008/10/08 08:19:53 minires
2008/10/08 08:19:53 mktemp
2008/10/08 08:19:53 mutt
2008/10/08 08:19:53 ncdu
2008/10/08 08:19:53 ncftp
2008/10/08 08:19:53 ncurses
2008/10/08 08:19:53 openssh
2008/10/08 08:19:53 orpie
2008/10/08 08:19:53 patch
2008/10/08 08:19:53 ping
2008/10/08 08:19:53 procps
2008/10/08 08:19:53 psmisc
2008/10/08 08:19:53 rcs
2008/10/08 08:19:53 readline
2008/10/08 08:19:53 rebase
2008/10/08 08:19:53 recode
2008/10/08 08:19:53 rsync
2008/10/08 08:19:53 rxvt
2008/10/08 08:19:53 screen
2008/10/08 08:19:53 tcl
2008/10/08 08:19:53 tin
2008/10/08 08:19:53 tk
2008/10/08 08:19:53 unzip
2008/10/08 08:19:53 util-linux
2008/10/08 08:19:53 vim
2008/10/08 08:19:53 w3m
2008/10/08 08:19:53 wget
2008/10/08 08:19:53 zip
2008/10/08 08:19:56 note: Nothing needed to be installed
2008/10/08 08:19:56 Ending cygwin install

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