I've just experienced the "removeFile: permission denied" error in
http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~rgm/darcs/darcs_2008-03-21.exe on WinXP on my
friends computer (while I had no such a problem on WinXP on a PC at my
home). It shows e.g. when I try to run 'darcs add -h'.

Mateusz Czaplinski

ah, and I forgot to mention that darcs1 runs OK (from
http://glozer.net/darcs/darcs-1.0.9-win32.zip)

On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Mateusz Czaplinski <czapkofan@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've just experienced the "removeFile: permission denied" error in
>  http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~rgm/darcs/darcs_2008-03-21.exe on WinXP on my
>  friends computer (while I had no such a problem on WinXP on a PC at my
>  home). It shows e.g. when I try to run 'darcs add -h'.
>
>  Mateusz Czaplinski
>

Thanks for the bug report! I'm afraid we'll need more information than this to
track down.  Does it mention which file cannot be removed? I understand that
since you can't reproduce this on your own computer it may be hard for you to
help us.

David

I'm not sure, but I think it could be the temporary file created by
darcs during it's operations, as after we finished working with darcs
(it didn't have problems with executing commands, it did also print
the list of commands when run without a parameter) I noticed some of
these files in my repository's main directory. I don't know how it can
be related, but for me it feels a bit like if it was somehow connected
with darcs trying to run the "less" command, as I do have some
linux/GNU tools installed and in PATH, and my friend does not, and
when I run darcs -h it does look like it went through "less".

But as for the rest, yes, you're right, I can't reproduce this
unfortunately. Hope any of what I wrote here helps a bit.
Good luck!
Mateusz Czaplinski

On 4/7/08, David Roundy <bugs@darcs.net> wrote:
>
>
> Thanks for the bug report! I'm afraid we'll need more information than this
> to
> track down.  Does it mention which file cannot be removed? I understand that
> since you can't reproduce this on your own computer it may be hard for you
> to
> help us.
>
> David
>
> ----------
> nosy: +czapkofan, droundy -czapkofan
> priority:  -> bug
>
> __________________________________
> Darcs bug tracker <bugs@darcs.net>
> <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue784>
> __________________________________
>

Here's my story:

W:\ida\plugins\TePe>darcs diff --diff-command "WinMergeU.exe %1 %2"
Running command 'WinMergeU.exe pluginsold-TePe/ pluginsnew-TePe/'
darcs: darcs84bdba: removeFile: permission denied (Permission denied)

WinMerge never starts.

I have attached a stacktrace of the call that creates the file. I'll attach a
file with the operations performed on the file as captured by Process Monitor.

Attachments

• darcs_CreateFile_stack.CSV

I should probably mention

W:\ida\plugins\TePe>darcs
darcs version 2.0.0 (2.0.0 (+ 19 patches))

as well.

Attachments

• darcs_fileoperations.CSV

The reason is you don't have less.exe anywhere. Darcs puts the help text thru less.

Workaround until fix:
- install cygwin.
- If 500 MB download to show a text file is too much for you, look for
"more.com" in your winnt directory, and duplicate it as less.exe anywhere in path.

2008/5/2 Kari Hoijarvi <bugs@darcs.net>:

>  Workaround until fix:
>  - install cygwin.
>  - If 500 MB download to show a text file is too much for you, look for
>  "more.com" in your winnt directory, and duplicate it as less.exe anywhere in path.

Out of curiosity, does duplicating more.com as more.exe work as well?
(of course, removing less.exe along the way)

Darcs is supposed to try 'more' if 'less' fails, so I'm a bit puzzled.

Probably it does then.

Personally speaking, my preferred fix to this bug is to remove paging 
with less. I can do it myself.

Kari

Eric Kow wrote:
> 2008/5/2 Kari Hoijarvi <bugs@darcs.net>:
>
>   
>>  Workaround until fix:
>>  - install cygwin.
>>  - If 500 MB download to show a text file is too much for you, look for
>>  "more.com" in your winnt directory, and duplicate it as less.exe anywhere in path.
>>     
>
> Out of curiosity, does duplicating more.com as more.exe work as well?
> (of course, removing less.exe along the way)
>
> Darcs is supposed to try 'more' if 'less' fails, so I'm a bit puzzled.
>
> __________________________________
> Darcs bug tracker <bugs@darcs.net>
> <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue784>
> __________________________________
>
>
>
>

I'd rather not remove the paging support, as this was a feature that folks
did ask for.  Better would be to simply print the help to stdout if paging
fails.

David

On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 09:26:58AM -0500, Kari Hoijarvi wrote:
> Probably it does then.
> 
> Personally speaking, my preferred fix to this bug is to remove paging 
> with less. I can do it myself.
> 
> Kari
> 
> Eric Kow wrote:
> >2008/5/2 Kari Hoijarvi <bugs@darcs.net>:
> >
> >  
> >> Workaround until fix:
> >> - install cygwin.
> >> - If 500 MB download to show a text file is too much for you, look for
> >> "more.com" in your winnt directory, and duplicate it as less.exe 
> >> anywhere in path.
> >>    
> >
> >Out of curiosity, does duplicating more.com as more.exe work as well?
> >(of course, removing less.exe along the way)
> >
> >Darcs is supposed to try 'more' if 'less' fails, so I'm a bit puzzled.

OOPS, Language ambiguity:

>Personally speaking, my preferred fix to this bug is to remove paging 
>with less. I can do it myself.

I meant I can do paging myself by typing "| more", not that I would remove paging support.

Kari

David Roundy wrote:
> I'd rather not remove the paging support, as this was a feature that folks
> did ask for.  Better would be to simply print the help to stdout if paging
> fails.
>
> David
>
> On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 09:26:58AM -0500, Kari Hoijarvi wrote:
>   
>> Probably it does then.
>>
>> Personally speaking, my preferred fix to this bug is to remove paging 
>> with less. I can do it myself.
>>
>> Kari
>>
>> Eric Kow wrote:
>>     
>>> 2008/5/2 Kari Hoijarvi <bugs@darcs.net>:
>>>
>>>  
>>>       
>>>> Workaround until fix:
>>>> - install cygwin.
>>>> - If 500 MB download to show a text file is too much for you, look for
>>>> "more.com" in your winnt directory, and duplicate it as less.exe 
>>>> anywhere in path.
>>>>    
>>>>         
>>> Out of curiosity, does duplicating more.com as more.exe work as well?
>>> (of course, removing less.exe along the way)
>>>
>>> Darcs is supposed to try 'more' if 'less' fails, so I'm a bit puzzled.
>>>       
>
> __________________________________
> Darcs bug tracker <bugs@darcs.net>
> <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue784>
> __________________________________
>
>
>
>

Wait a second, I don't think this is a duplicate.  Is there any reason to
believe that the diff-command stuff has anything to do with the pager?  I doubt it.

I can confirm that this is still happening, even after fixing issue770.  It only
happens on the DOS prompt, not under MSYS or Cygwin

The file it's trying to remove is C:\Temp\/\darcspager-3223 (which works if you
do it on the DOS prompt and enclose it in quotes)

Hello kowey,

As I read this, you are able to reproduce the problem reported. Could you supply 
some additional details, please?

Thanks and best regards
Thorkil

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:39:46 -0000, Thorkil Naur wrote:
> As I read this, you are able to reproduce the problem reported. Could you supply 
> some additional details, please?

I don't have a Windows machine handy at the moment, but I suspect that
with issue770 resolved, this too may be resolved.

Salvatore, any comments?

Thanks!

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Eric Kow <bugs@darcs.net> wrote:
>
> Eric Kow <kowey@darcs.net> added the comment:
> I don't have a Windows machine handy at the moment, but I suspect that
> with issue770 resolved, this too may be resolved.

This has been resolved already in 2.2, and in 2.1.2 too if I remember correctly.

Salvaatore