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Subject: RE: Stuck trying to reinstall Emacs 23.0.92 and setup dying each  time
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 14:31:54 -0700
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From: "KARR, DAVID (ATTCINW)" <dk068x@att.com>
To: "Ken Brown" <kbrown@cornell.edu>, <cygwin@cygwin.com>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On
> Behalf Of Ken Brown
> Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 1:42 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: Stuck trying to reinstall Emacs 23.0.92 and setup dying
> each time
>=20
> 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?
>=20
> 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.  Does that imply anything?

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