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From: "Mike Marchywka" <marchywka AT hotmail DOT com>
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Subject: RE: having problem fixing x installation and other minor things.
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 19:10:15 -0400
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It turned out that the related file in /etc/setup was corrupt- I deleted the
10 byte gz file and everything ran. Apparently setup.exe dies if this file 
aint right.
I can start X and cygcheck is mostly clean- if I can't run like this at 
least I'm
assuming I can fix the rest or at least nuke this directory and start from 
nothing if needed.

FWIW.


>From: "Dave Korn" <dave DOT korn AT artimi DOT com>
>To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
>Subject: RE: having problem fixing x installation and other minor things.
>Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 16:50:00 +0100
>
>On 08 October 2007 13:39, Mike Marchywka wrote:
>
> > 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?
>
>   It's probably a corrupt package in your package dir.  Assuming it's the 
>same
>thing, I used to have this trouble quite some time ago; I think there was a
>bad version on the mirrors briefly a long time ago and once it makes its 
>way
>into your package dir it lives there forever, causing no problem during
>routine upgrades, but completely messing you over when you try to 
>uninstall.
>Blow away the xorg-x11-fnts in your stored packages dir and try again.
>
>   (NB: Like I say, it was a long time ago, so I don't remember for sure, 
>but
>there may even have been more than one corrupt package down there, I'm not
>sure if I didn't end up blowing away that -fenc thingy as well).
>
>     cheers,
>       DaveK
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