Re: XFree86-bin-icons

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Igor,

You wrote the original message in this thread, correct?  Was it sent to 
cygwin-xfree, cygwin, or cygwin-apps?  I am asking only because I can't 
find a log of it anywhere... was it eaten by the mail server?

Actually, there is another bug in XFree86-bin-icons, that is, it doesn't 
usually create icons for any package except emacs unless it is run 
manually from the command-line.  I haven't looked into this enough to 
see if it only happens on fresh installs (implying that the problem is 
probably that XFree86-bin hasn't been installed yet) or if it happens 
all the time.  That bug needs to be fixed before any sort of permissions 
bug.  As is, it is pretty worthless.

Harold

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> Mark,
>
> Please don't send personal e-mail on Cygwin issues unless specifically
> requested.  Also, please make sure your mailer honors the Reply-To:
> header.  I'm forwarding this reply to the appropriate list.
>
> More inline below.
>
> On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Mark Anderson wrote:
>
>
> > Igor;
> > I am writing to you in reference to this posting.
> >
> >
> > > The XFree86-bin-icons package is buggy.  It's basically a postinstall
> > > script that tries to create icons for the X programs that are installed
> > > on your machine.  The problem is that it tries to create them in the
> > > Start Menu for "All Users" without checking whether the current user can
> > > write to it.  I'm not quite sure why it hangs for you, but you can try
> > > runnning that script manually via "bash -x" and seeing where it hangs.
> > > If you do investigate, please post your findings to the cygwin-xfree
> > > list.  If you don't want to bother, simply do not install the
> > > XFree86-bin-icons package (all it does is provide the Start Menu icons
> > > -- not essential).
> > >        Igor
> > > P.S. Note to setup developers (myself included -- just want to get this
> > > into the archives for now): even though postinstall scripts are not
> > > interactive, their output *is* logged, so they should print something
> > > that tracks their progress (maybe even be run with the -x flag, but
> > > that's probably overkill).  We should put some words to that effect on
> > > the setup.html page.
> >
> > Thanks but I have a few issues also.
> > 1 I do not know how to manually run this with the -x flag what are the
> > steps, and where do I get the package?
>
>
> This wasn't a note for you, it was for setup developers.  FWIW, you can
> run the script using "sh -x /etc/postinstall/XFree86-bin-icons.sh".
>
>
> > 2 setup.exe will not let me UN-CHOOSE this option I have run this in
> > skip uninstall I have selected the package and removed the checkbox and
> > SETUP.EXE still hangs on XFree86-bin-icons. Since setup has uninstalled
> > everything and I can not get past XFree86-bin-icons, cygwin wont run. IF
> > I try to mess around I may be able to get the basic cygwin to run.
> >
> > HELP
> > Thank
> > Mark Anderson
>
>
> I don't understand what you're trying to say here.  You should be able to
> simply unselect the package from the list of currently installed ones
> using setup.  If you still have trouble, simply erase
> /etc/postinstall/XFree86-bin-icons.sh (you can even do it using Windows
> Explorer), and don't reinstall the XFree86-bin-icons package.
> 	Igor