Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <3F7868E9.9030309@msu.edu> Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 13:16:25 -0400 From: Harold L Hunt II User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030827 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree AT cygwin DOT com CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: XFree86-bin-icons References: <3F785D93 DOT 70807 AT msu DOT edu> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.1 required=5.5 tests=IN_REP_TO,REFERENCES,USER_AGENT_MOZILLA_UA,X_ACCEPT_LANG version=2.55 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) [Discussion on this issue is now taking place where it should have in the first place: cygwin-xfree. Please follow the cygwin-xfree mailing list for further posts.] Igor, Okay, that explains why I couldn't find the message in cygwin-xfree. I really wish someone would have redirected the question over here... I never saw it. > FWIW, you can force the order of execution of the XFree86-bin-icons.sh > postinstall script by making the package dependent on XFree86-bin and > others, but that would most likely defeat the purpose of the package. Thanks. I actually did that just now, right before you suggested it. However, I didn't know that it would force the order of post-install script execution; that is a nice side-effect. The bin-icons package should logically depend on the bin package. People can manually unselect it if they want to. >>>>>The XFree86-bin-icons package is buggy. It's basically a postinstall >>>>>script that tries to create icons for the X programs that are installed >>>>>on your machine. The problem is that it tries to create them in the >>>>>Start Menu for "All Users" without checking whether the current user can >>>>>write to it. That's not entirely true. For example, my account has Administrator priveleges on my machine, the script runs fine when I launch it from a bash prompt; so file permissions are not an issue. >>>>>I'm not quite sure why it hangs for you, but you can try >>>>>runnning that script manually via "bash -x" and seeing where it hangs. It doesn't hang when you do this. Something strange is going on here... setup.exe says "Running: No Package /etc/postinstal/XFree86-bin-icons". What is up with the "No Package"? Is that indicating the real problem? Another thing is that an Uninstall of XFree86-bin-icons also hangs when it tries to run the preremove script. Yet, running the preremove script by hand never causes any problems (e.g. bash -x /etc/preremove/XFree86-bin-icons.sh). What gives? Harold -- 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/