Re: Stuck trying to reinstall Emacs 23.0.92 and setup dying each time

[Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>]

On 7/1/2009 6:37 PM, KARR, DAVID (ATTCINW) wrote:
> Ok, so that shows that emacs-el.lst.gz was corrupted.  I deleted it,
> then reran setup. I clicked "Exp", then "View", then scrolled down to
> the three "emacs*" lines and set them all to "Reinstall" (the "Current"
> column says "23.0.92-2") and clicked "Next".  It chugged for a bit, last
> displaying "Uninstalling emacs-el", then reported "setup.exe has
> encountered ...".  After dismissing the dialog, I looked at /etc/setup
> again, and the corrupted "emacs-el.lst.gz" was there again.  I also
> checked to see whether any other "*.lst.gz" files were corrupted, and
> there were none.

Sorry, but I don't have a clue why that file is corrupted.  Could this 
be http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda?  Here's a 
recent example where that was suspected, but I don't know if the poster 
ever solved the problem:

  http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2009-05/msg00221.html

Ken

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