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 X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 12:46:13 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com cc: "David A. Cobb" Subject: Re: Installation problem with xfree86-prog In-Reply-To: <3FC23BD5.4060509@cox.net> Message-ID: References: <3FC23BD5 DOT 4060509 AT cox DOT net> Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, David A. Cobb wrote: > I know that problems with Xfree86-cygwin have a list of their own, but I > think this may be a packaging problem or something super-weird about my > Cygwin installation. > > Lately, XFree86-prog is showing up among the packages to be updated. If > I allow setup to attempt this, every attempt locks up trying to install > a file . The setup control ^^^^^^^^ This is a packaging error. Should be "file://usr/X11R6/include/X11/ap_keysym.h". Which mirror are you using? Which version of XFree86-prog are you trying to install? Which version of setup.exe? > flickers, continually redisplaying the same percent-complete. I can go > away and have dinner, when I come back it hasn't made any progress. If > I spy on it with, say, ProcessExplorer, it seems to be acquiring a > "token" on //Administrator, then releasing the same. > Again, and again, and . . . . How do you exit setup? Do you press "Cancel", or kill the process via Task Manager/Process Explorer? If you press "Cancel", please post a (bzipped) copy of your /var/log/setup.log.full corresponding to a failed session. > No matter which version I choose to install, they all hang on the same file. > > The file does not exist on my installation (because I uninstalled the > package). I don't see anything strange about directory permissions. No > other package seems to exhibit the problem. > > Any ideas? Please also attach the output of "cygcheck -svr", as per . Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- 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/