At 09.17 17/03/2003 -0800, Phil Nelson wrote:

> >simply... i was installing codacli-a7.exe from a remote hard drive... 
> (samba)
> >
> >copied it to c: and all the problems is gone...
>
>Actually, I installed my test versions from samba all the time.  I
>suspect the problem has to do with getting cygwin and the wise
>installer script working together properly.  Sometimes I have had the
>install fail the first time and by rerunning the the install, it
>works.  It is typically happens when someone installs cygwin at the
>request of the Coda install program.  I have tried many things to find
>out why it sometimes fails on the first try, but have not found out.
>Once I have had a successful install, a uninstall followed by a
>reinstall rarely fails.

i have a real long "INSTALL.LOG", i had tryed to install a lot of time.

>There may be a bigger problem when you try to run venus.  I have
>had several recent reports of RVM problems.  I have not had
>the time to track down those current problems.  Sorry.

no, as i said is a problem with tar (gzip not found)

>--Phil

the log is always the same:
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***  Installation Started 03/17/03 2:55  ***
Title: Coda Installation
Source: Z:\usr\src\coda\codacli-a7.exe
-pause-
just a comment, for who don't know about samba, you can't share /, z:\usr 
is a symlink to /usr
-continue-
File Overwrite: E:\cygwin\home\coda\UNWISE.EXE
RegDB Key: Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Coda
RegDB Val: Coda
RegDB Name: DisplayName
RegDB Root: 2
RegDB Old: Coda
RegDB Key: Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Coda
RegDB Val: E:\cygwin\home\coda\UNWISE.EXE E:\cygwin\home\coda\INSTALL.LOG
RegDB Name: UninstallString
RegDB Root: 2
RegDB Old: E:\cygwin\home\coda\UNWISE.EXE E:\cygwin\home\coda\INSTALL.LOG
File Overwrite: E:\cygwin\home\coda\LICENSE
File Overwrite: E:\cygwin\home\coda\CREDITS
File Overwrite: E:\cygwin\home\coda\Filelist
File Overwrite: E:\cygwin\home\coda\Legal
File Overwrite: E:\cygwin\home\coda\uninstall.sh
File Overwrite: E:\cygwin\home\coda\Readme
File Overwrite: C:\WINDOWS\System32\drivers\coda.sys
File Overwrite: E:\cygwin\home\coda\getdbgmsgs.exe
File Overwrite: E:\cygwin\home\coda\ntdebug.exe
File Overwrite: E:\cygwin\home\coda\umount.exe
File Overwrite: E:\cygwin\home\coda\usr.local.tgz
RegDB Key: SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\coda
RegDB Val: 1
RegDB Name: ErrorControl
RegDB Type: 3
RegDB Root: 2
RegDB Old: 1
RegDB Key: SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\coda
RegDB Val: File System
RegDB Name: Group
RegDB Root: 2
RegDB Old: File System
RegDB Key: SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\coda
RegDB Val: 3
RegDB Name: Start
RegDB Type: 3
RegDB Root: 2
RegDB Old: 3
RegDB Key: SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\coda
RegDB Val: 2
RegDB Name: Type
RegDB Type: 3
RegDB Root: 2
RegDB Old: 2
Delete in-use files: On
Installation Aborted!
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after i copied codacli-a7.exe to c:\
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***  Installation Started 03/17/03 18:10  ***
Title: Coda Installation
Source: C:\codacli-a7.exe
File Overwrite: E:\cygwin\home\coda\UNWISE.EXE
RegDB Key: Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Coda
RegDB Val: Coda
RegDB Name: DisplayName
RegDB Root: 2
RegDB Old: Coda
RegDB Key: Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Coda
RegDB Val: E:\cygwin\home\coda\UNWISE.EXE E:\cygwin\home\coda\INSTALL.LOG
RegDB Name: UninstallString
RegDB Root: 2
RegDB Old: C:\cygwin\home\coda\UNWISE.EXE C:\cygwin\home\coda\INSTALL.LOG
File Overwrite: E:\cygwin\home\coda\LICENSE
File Overwrite: E:\cygwin\home\coda\CREDITS
File Overwrite: E:\cygwin\home\coda\Filelist
File Overwrite: E:\cygwin\home\coda\Legal
File Overwrite: E:\cygwin\home\coda\uninstall.sh
File Overwrite: E:\cygwin\home\coda\Readme
File Overwrite: C:\WINDOWS\System32\drivers\coda.sys
File Overwrite: E:\cygwin\home\coda\getdbgmsgs.exe
File Overwrite: E:\cygwin\home\coda\ntdebug.exe
File Overwrite: E:\cygwin\home\coda\umount.exe
File Overwrite: E:\cygwin\home\coda\usr.local.tgz
RegDB Key: SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\coda
RegDB Val: 1
RegDB Name: ErrorControl
RegDB Type: 3
RegDB Root: 2
RegDB Old: 1
RegDB Key: SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\coda
RegDB Val: File System
RegDB Name: Group
RegDB Root: 2
RegDB Old: File System
RegDB Key: SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\coda
RegDB Val: 3
RegDB Name: Start
RegDB Type: 3
RegDB Root: 2
RegDB Old: 3
RegDB Key: SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\coda
RegDB Val: 2
RegDB Name: Type
RegDB Type: 3
RegDB Root: 2
RegDB Old: 2
Delete in-use files: On
RegDB Tree: SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\coda
RegDB Root: 2
File Tree: C:\WINDOWS\System32\drivers\coda.sys
File Tree: E:\cygwin\home\coda\*
File Tree: E:\cygwin\home\coda\
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Daniele