X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_NEUTRAL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4A4BF824.2000508@cornell.edu> Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:58:28 -0400 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Stuck trying to reinstall Emacs 23.0.92 and setup dying each time References: <4A4BC9FA.9010904@cornell.edu> <4A4BE1BD.2080302@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 6:37 PM, KARR, DAVID (ATTCINW) wrote: > Ok, so that shows that emacs-el.lst.gz was corrupted. I deleted it, > then reran setup. I clicked "Exp", then "View", then scrolled down to > the three "emacs*" lines and set them all to "Reinstall" (the "Current" > column says "23.0.92-2") and clicked "Next". It chugged for a bit, last > displaying "Uninstalling emacs-el", then reported "setup.exe has > encountered ...". After dismissing the dialog, I looked at /etc/setup > again, and the corrupted "emacs-el.lst.gz" was there again. I also > checked to see whether any other "*.lst.gz" files were corrupted, and > there were none. One other thought: You don't actually need emacs-el. This just provides source files for the emacs libraries, and you can always get them from the emacs source if you find you need them later. Can you reinstall emacs and emacs-X11 and just "keep" emacs-el? 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