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From: "Mike Marchywka" <marchywka AT hotmail DOT com>
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Subject: having problem fixing x installation and other minor things.
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 08:38:41 -0400
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>   The usual things: cygcheck to see if any packages are listed as 
>incomplete,

Thanks- as I indicated in PM your suggestion immediately pointed to the 
groff install.

>re-running setup.exe, looking in /etc/postinstall for scripts that aren't

However, re-running setup isn't quite working because trying to uninstall 
one particular
item causes it to bomb. This xorg-x11-fnts isn't quite right as I can't 
uninstall it :
xorg-x11-fenc           6.8.99.901-1       OK
xorg-x11-fnts           6.8.1.0-3          OK
xorg-x11-fscl           6.8.99.901-1       OK

What is the safest way to manually ( not using setup ) uninstall this and do 
a clean
reinstall or figure out what is causing setup to terminate? I did an almost 
clean, except for above thing, uninstall and reinstall of X and it still 
doesn't run. Also, it appears if I download packages
first, and then try to reinstall from local directory that the packages 
disappear during
the uninstall even if needed for the subsequent install ( lots of missing 
file dialog boxes
and it didn't look like the reinstall actually happened).

Thanks.


>From: "Dave Korn" <dave DOT korn AT artimi DOT com>
>To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
>Subject: RE: blank man pages after update, nroff can't find DESC
>Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 14:12:30 +0100
>
>On 07 October 2007 13:56, Mike Marchywka wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I updated by cygwin and now man doesn't seem to work.
> > I tried man -d ld and then typed the display commands by hand, removing 
>the
> > "2>/dev/null"
> > It appears the problem is this:
> >
> > $  /usr/bin/nroff -c -mandoc
> > groff: can't find `DESC' file
>
> >  What should I do?
>
>   The usual things: cygcheck to see if any packages are listed as 
>incomplete,
>re-running setup.exe, looking in /etc/postinstall for scripts that aren't
>marked .done, ...
>
>

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