X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <470A4AE5.6040601@cygwin.com> Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 11:21:09 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070505 Remi/2.0.0.0-3.fc4.remi Thunderbird/2.0.0.0 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: having problem fixing x installation and other minor things. References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Mike Marchywka wrote: > >> 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). Interesting. Well, I recommend just doing the install which will download and install in one step. This way, you won't see whatever issue you have been seeing. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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/