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RE: XFree86 install fails
- From: "Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>
- To: <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 18:39:19 -0400
- Subject: RE: XFree86 install fails
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Chris,
You need to run ``mount'' from a Cygwin bash prompt and check the location
of your fonts mount. For example, here is what I get:
Administrator@HUNTHARO ~
$ mount
C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts type system
(binmo
de)
C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode)
C:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode)
c:\PalmDev on /PalmDev type system (textmode)
C:\cygwin on / type system (binmode)
c: on /cygdrive/c type user (binmode,noumount)
w: on /cygdrive/w type user (binmode,noumount)
y: on /cygdrive/y type user (binmode,noumount)
z: on /cygdrive/z type user (binmode,noumount)
My guess is that at some point you had Cygwin/XFree86 installed to a
different drive that is no longer available. You can unmount your current
mount for /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts and either 1) remount it if your default
mount is not binary mode, or 2) leave out that mount if your default mount
is binary mode.
Harold
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Chris Plonski
> Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 5:47 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: XFree86 install fails
>
>
> I have seen this on multiple Win2k SP3 machines. I cannot
> perform a new install of the XFree86 package. The setup proceeds
> as normal till it gets to the fonts. It will freeze unpacking
> the first font package, and I have to cancel. I have tried to
> manually running bunzip2 on any of the fonts packages, and it
> fails with aas follows:
>
> $ bunzip2 XFree86-fenc-4.2.0-2.tar.bz2
>
> bunzip2: I/O or other error, bailing out. Possible reason follows.
> bunzip2: Invalid argument
> Input file = XFree86-fenc-4.2.0-2.tar.bz2, output file =
> XFree86-fenc-4.
> 2.0-2.tar
> bunzip2: Deleting output file XFree86-fenc-4.2.0-2.tar, if it exists.
>
> Using a win utility to extract out the .tar file and issuing a
> tar -xvf command does as follows:
> $ tar -xvf XFree86-fenc-4.2.0-2.tar
> usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/
> tar: usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts: Cannot mkdir: No such file or directory
> usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings/
> tar: usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings: Cannot mkdir: No such
> file or directory
>
> I attempted to simply issue a mkdir command as follows, and it
> fails doing that too!
>
> $ mkdir /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
> mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts': No
> such file or directory
>
> What's up?