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Dr. Volker Zell wrote:

> I just tried again:
> 
> I deleted /usr/bin/gs symlink, /etc/alternatives/gs symlink and /var/lib/alternatives/gs.
>
> 12:13 AM [506]> update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gs gs /usr/bin/gs-native 10
> 01:20 AM [507]> update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gs gs /usr/bin/gs-x11 20
> path to alternate expected in /var/lib/alternatives/gs
> 01:20 AM [508]> cat /var/lib/alternatives/gs 
> auto
> /usr/bin/gs
> 
> /usr/bin/gs-native
> 10

Still can't reproduce:

$ rm /usr/bin/gs
$ rm /etc/alternatives/gs
$ rm /var/lib/alternatives/gs
$ /usr/sbin/update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gs gs 
/usr/bin/gs-native 10
$ /usr/sbin/update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gs gs /usr/bin/gs-x11 20
$ cat /var/lib/alternatives/gs
auto
/usr/bin/gs

/usr/bin/gs-native
10
/usr/bin/gs-x11
20

As it happens, my XP machine was still using ghostscript-8.50, so I ran 
setup on it, and upgraded to gs-8.51-2 (using setup-2.573.2.2). Here's 
the last bit of that /var/log/setup.log.full:

...
2008/04/14 21:09:20 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c 
/etc/postinstall/update-info-dir.sh
2008/04/14 21:09:33 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c 
/etc/postinstall/fftw3.sh
2008/04/14 21:09:33 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c 
/etc/postinstall/ghostscript.sh
2008/04/14 21:09:34 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c 
/etc/postinstall/ghostscript-x11.sh
2008/04/14 21:09:34 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c 
/etc/postinstall/git.sh
2008/04/14 21:09:34 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c 
/etc/postinstall/gnupg.sh
install-info: menu item `gpg' already exists, for file `gpg'
2008/04/14 21:09:34 abnormal exit: exit code=1
2008/04/14 21:09:34 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c 
/etc/postinstall/gv.sh
2008/04/14 21:09:35 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c 
/etc/postinstall/libXft.sh
 >>> Processing directory /usr/lib
 >>> Processing directory /usr/X11R6/lib
2008/04/14 21:13:28 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c 
/etc/postinstall/libtool.sh
2008/04/14 21:13:28 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c 
/etc/postinstall/t1lib.sh
2008/04/14 21:13:28 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c 
/etc/postinstall/xfig.sh
2008/04/14 21:13:29 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c 
/etc/postinstall/xpdf.sh
2008/04/14 21:17:44 note: Installation Complete
2008/04/14 21:17:44 Ending cygwin install


I don't know what else to do here. Unless I can reproduce it, I can't 
debug it. The only possibility I can think of is this: are you actually 
using alternatives-1.3.29a-1, or some older version?  The previous 
version had a serious bug in a routine called by --display...

--
Chuck

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