Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Hannu E K Nevalainen" To: "ML CygWIN" Subject: RE: cygwin problem Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 23:29:37 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal In-Reply-To: <20031007204446.GI2128@tishler.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Importance: Normal > From: Jason Tishler > Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 10:45 PM > > I have a problem installing cygwin on XP pro .. it ALWAYS hangs at 99% > > complete on the "xfree32-icons" component, and when I cancel the > > install it always says "installation complete" in a popup. > > > > Ok I can't uninstall it or install it through the setup.exe now. Both > > hang. So I uninstalled the whole thing (manually in the registry and > > everything= restarted, and guess what .. hangns at xfree32-icons... it > > hangs for hours. BTW I disabled Norton. > > > > Please help? > > Jason To fix the xfree-icons thing: Launch setup.exe from BASH, e.g. $ /install/setup.exe --no-md5 (NOTE: I've mounted the parent of "local package dir" as /install) Select to "Install from local directory" Leave ALL other things at "default", just go on clicking "Next" This will make the /etc/postinstall/Xfree86-bin-icons.sh script do its job, without fuzz. I will be investigating the problem as time permits. No promises though. /Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE - 59?16.37'N, 17?12.60'E -- UTC+01, DST -> UTC+02 -- --END OF MESSAGE-- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/