Mail Archives: cygwin/2009/10/25/20:29:54
Well, in end the something changed and cygcheck is working again
I download the "cygwin" sources and rebuilt the whole source tree. Once
confident that cygcheck.exe built, I then modified dump_setup.cc and
slightly modified the 3 possible error messages I was seeing. This way
I can know which one was printing. Then rebuilt.
When I started testing, I realized that I was picking up the installed
version in /bin. It started working again without me making any changes.
Since I did however downloaded the sources, the following files were
touched:
-rw-r--r-- 1 paul root 301 Oct 25 16:59 base-files.lst.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 paul root 15528 Oct 25 17:02 installed.db
-rwxrwxrwx 1 paul None 42 Oct 25 17:02 last-mirror
-rwxrwxrwx 1 paul None 0 Oct 25 17:02 last-extrakeys
-rwxrwxrwx 1 paul None 7 Oct 25 17:02 last-connection
-rwxrwxrwx 1 paul None 19 Oct 25 17:02 last-cache
-rwxrwxrwx 1 paul None 17 Oct 25 17:02 last-action
So just by downloading something, the problem went away (Humm). I
can't explain this or reproduce it anymore
Paul McFerrin wrote:
> Here is my ENTIRE chgcheck -c output:
> $ cygcheck -c
> Cygwin Package Information
> No setup information found
>
> The -s option does provide system information but without the package
> info but at the end, I get the following:
> Cygwin Package Information
> No setup information found
> Use -h to see help about each section
> 'id' program not found
> 'id' program not found
> /etc/setup.$ type id
> id is /bin/id
> $ id
> uid=1003(paul) gid=513(None)
> groups=0(root),544(Administrators),545(Users),1005(AcronisBackupServerUsers),513(None),544(Administrators),545(Users),1005(AcronisBackupServerUsers),513(None)
>
>
> The installed.db contains 414 records including the following:
> INSTALLED.DB 2
> base-cygwin base-cygwin-2.0-1.tar.bz2 0
> cygwin cygwin-1.7.0-62.tar.bz2 0
> cygwin-doc cygwin-doc-1.5-1.tar.bz2 0
>
> Now if we can only have better clues as to what is wrong. The error
> message "No setup information found" is not a very helpful clue.
> The same error as my fresh install on cygwin onto my USB Flash drive.
>
>
> Dave Korn wrote:
>> Paul McFerrin wrote:
>>
>>
>>> What setup information is chgcheck looking for? File
>>> /etc/setup/installed.db is present.
>>
>> That's where it ought to be looking. Does it contain a line with
>> the cygwin
>> version? Has something gone wrong with the mount points? What do
>> you see
>> when you run a plain "cygcheck -cd" without grepping it all away, is
>> there a
>> package list at all or not?
>>
>> cheers,
>> DaveK
>>
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