X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Yahoo-SMTP: Uu383n6swBCEN1G9up0WSnxbvN8fCPmk Message-ID: <4C377841.9010008@cygwin.com> Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:28:01 -0400 From: "Larry Hall \(Cygwin\)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090320 Remi/2.0.0.21-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Reporting problem requiring rebaseall to solve it. 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 On 7/9/2010 2:57 PM, Daniel Povey wrote: > Reporting problem and solution, but I would appreciate if cygwin > experts could comment on the underlying reasons why this kind of thing > happens and why rebaseall is needed. > > I have done a pretty clean install of the latest Cygwin and want to > report a problem (and solution) so people will be able to fix it > themselves. I am installing on a domain-joined Win7 machine. My > installation process is to run setup.exe, only choose wget as an extra > package, and then use the apt-cyg script to install extra packages, as > in: > cp apt-cyg /bin > apt-cyg install `cat packages` > where "packages" is a list of the packages I had from a previous install. > When I try to start X, it fails and I get the following errors in > /var/log/XWin.0.log (see bottom of email).l FWIW, you don't need to use apt-cyg to automate an install of a certain set of packages. Using the '-P' parameter of 'setup.exe' to list out the packages you want to install will work. If you're looking for a basic overview of why rebasing is necessary in some cases, you should read /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/rebase*.README. This summarizes things quite well. If you're looking for more details, the email archives (cygwin-apps) has allot of discussion about it in the history. It's a ways back though. ;-) -- 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? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple