X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,MISSING_HEADERS,SPF_NEUTRAL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4A4BE1BD.2080302@cornell.edu> Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:22:53 -0400 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Stuck trying to reinstall Emacs 23.0.92 and setup dying each time References: <4A4BC9FA.9010904@cornell.edu> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 On 7/1/2009 5:31 PM, KARR, DAVID (ATTCINW) wrote: >> -----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 >> >> 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 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple