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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 know at least that package is out of date.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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