Mail Archives: cygwin/2007/10/08/08:39:06
> The usual things: cygcheck to see if any packages are listed as
>incomplete,
Thanks- as I indicated in PM your suggestion immediately pointed to the
groff install.
>re-running setup.exe, looking in /etc/postinstall for scripts that aren't
However, re-running setup isn't quite working because trying to uninstall
one particular
item causes it to bomb. This xorg-x11-fnts isn't quite right as I can't
uninstall it :
xorg-x11-fenc 6.8.99.901-1 OK
xorg-x11-fnts 6.8.1.0-3 OK
xorg-x11-fscl 6.8.99.901-1 OK
What is the safest way to manually ( not using setup ) uninstall this and do
a clean
reinstall or figure out what is causing setup to terminate? I did an almost
clean, except for above thing, uninstall and reinstall of X and it still
doesn't run. Also, it appears if I download packages
first, and then try to reinstall from local directory that the packages
disappear during
the uninstall even if needed for the subsequent install ( lots of missing
file dialog boxes
and it didn't look like the reinstall actually happened).
Thanks.
>From: "Dave Korn" <dave DOT korn AT artimi DOT com>
>To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
>Subject: RE: blank man pages after update, nroff can't find DESC
>Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 14:12:30 +0100
>
>On 07 October 2007 13:56, Mike Marchywka wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I updated by cygwin and now man doesn't seem to work.
> > I tried man -d ld and then typed the display commands by hand, removing
>the
> > "2>/dev/null"
> > It appears the problem is this:
> >
> > $ /usr/bin/nroff -c -mandoc
> > groff: can't find `DESC' file
>
> > What should I do?
>
> The usual things: cygcheck to see if any packages are listed as
>incomplete,
>re-running setup.exe, looking in /etc/postinstall for scripts that aren't
>marked .done, ...
>
>
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