Jens Axel found the link:<br><br><a href="http://bugs.plt-scheme.org/query/?cmd=view&pr=9554" target="_blank">http://bugs.plt-scheme.org/query/?cmd=view&pr=9554</a><br> <font color="#888888"><br></font>And, Eli, there is a Doug/Appdata/Local/<div id=":5u" class="ii gt">VirtualStore/Program Files/PLT/collects/scribblings/main/user directory created on my Vista machine in the Virtual Store. So, the PLT/collects/scribblings/main/user directory was apparantly created after the install. I'm not sure why it's empty, unless the directory itself is the lock.<br> <font color="#888888"> </font></div><br>Doug<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Eli Barzilay <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eli@barzilay.org">eli@barzilay.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">On Jul 21, Doug Williams wrote:<br> </div><div class="im">> Eli,<br> ><br> > I get a different error on my Linux box when I try to load the<br> > science collection:<br> ><br> > with-output-to-file: cannot open output file:<br> > "/usr/plt/collects/scribblings/main/user/.setup-plt-marker"<br> > (Permission denied; errno=13)<br> <br> </div>Ah, that's very useful.<br> <div class="im"><br> <br> On Jul 21, Doug Williams wrote:<br> </div><div class="im">> Eli, this seems to be related to the old Vista problem we had before<br> > (I think it was Robby that tracked it down) with the virtual store.<br> > On Vista, if system files are re-written, the updated copy is<br> > written in the Virtual Store - not to the file itself.<br> > Unfortunately, these persist over installs of PLT Scheme.<br> <br> </div>Yes, I remember that (I think that I was the one who talked about it<br> with you, or maybe it was someone else that I talked to), but this is<br> only partially related to the problem. The thing is that running a<br> planet setup uses the usual setup code, which is trying to verify that<br> all the collections to be setup are writeable by placing these marker<br> files -- and also using them to make sure that you're not trying to<br> setup the same collection twice (eg, `setup-plt -l foo foo').<br> <br> One of the recent changes is that setting up a planet package is<br> properly reconstructing the user index, and this is somehow done in a<br> way that makes it (try to) lock the main/user collection.<br> <br> Matthew -- is there some place in the code I can look at to see if<br> there's an easy solution?<br> <font color="#888888"><br> --<br> </font><div><div></div><div class="h5"> ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay:<br> <a href="http://barzilay.org/" target="_blank">http://barzilay.org/</a> Maze is Life!<br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br>