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Date:	Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:22:53 -0400
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Subject:	Re: Stuck trying to reinstall Emacs 23.0.92 and setup dying each time
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On 7/1/2009 5:31 PM, KARR, DAVID (ATTCINW) wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com] On
>> Behalf Of Ken Brown
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 1:42 PM
>> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>> Subject: Re: Stuck trying to reinstall Emacs 23.0.92 and setup dying
>> each time
>>
>> On 7/1/2009 12:20 PM, KARR, DAVID (ATTCINW) wrote:
>>> I had set up Cygwin yesterday with the experimental Emacs 23.0.92.
> I
>>> had done other updates after that, forgetting the fact that since
> I'm
>>> using an experimental package, I have to set the Emacs-related pages
>> to
>>> "Keep".  I'm now in a state where I have the 23.0.92 executable, but
>>> with /usr/share/emacs/21.2.  So, now I'm trying to run setup again
> to
>>> reinstall 23.0.92, or uninstall it, or anything.  No matter what I
>> do,
>>> setup dies hard, requiring a forced kill from task manager.
>>>
>>> What can I do to clean up from this situation?
>> Does http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2008-04/msg00065.html help?  The
>> bug discussed there was supposed to have been fixed
>> (http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2008-08/msg00128.html), but it
>> wouldn't
>> hurt to see if that's the problem.
> 
> Hmm, well it's a little hard to tell.  It's clear it's not exactly the
> same thing, because my copy of "/etc/setup/cygrunsrv.lst.gz" isn't
> corrupted, it simply doesn't exist.

cygrunsrv happened to be the package that the poster of that message was 
having trouble with.  You should look at /etc/setup/emacs*.lst.gz.

Ken

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