RE: xorg installation fails, 99% complete only

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Bobby McNulty wrote:

> Gerrit, I will try once more.
> This time, though, all my software was in place, no service pack, nothing,
> just Office.
> Same spot, same readme file.
> the mirror I was using was mirrors.rcn.net, which is the fastest one I found
> have been using for two years now.

... and which has a setup.ini dated 11/09/2003 (!).

Hmm, come to think of it, so does ftp://cygwin.com...  Could that be
what's throwing setup off?
	Igor

Oh, and <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>.  Thanks.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@XXXXXX.XXX
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@XXXXXX.XXX]On Behalf Of Gerrit P. Haase
> Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 4:22 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@XXXXXX.XXX
> Subject: Re: xorg installation fails, 99% complete only
>
> Bobby McNulty wrote:
>
> > OK Chris, here it is. The full report. Complete down to the readme file
> > that it is hanging at.
> > Cygwin setup is at 97%
> > it says install xorg-x11-fscl-6.8.1.0-2
> > /usr/X11R6/share/doc/Cygwin/xorg-x11-fscl-6.8.1.0.README
> >
> > its in a contiuous loop, not gettiing past this point.
>
> In a different posting it was said that it is the fontserver package,
> this is a different package.  How should we debug this problem without
> correct information?
>
> This is the first posting I see about this issue where I read a detailed
> description, all the others I read (maybe I have not seen all of them)
> were about some readme file, fontserver..., nothing useful.
>
> I just reinstalled this xorg-x11-fscl package now, it works fine on NT4
> AND it works fine on XP/SP2.
>
> $ cygcheck -c xorg-x11-fscl
> Cygwin Package Information
> Package              Version        Status
> xorg-x11-fscl        6.8.1.0-2      OK
>
> Why don't you send the output of cygcheck -srv as an attachment?
>
> Maybe your mount table is broken?  Maybe your XP/SP2 is broken?
>
> Why are you not providing more information?  You cannot expect that we
> can fix a problem which we don't have, I cannot help debugging it
> without even seeing the problem.
>
> Gerrit
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