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Re: xorg installation fails, 99% complete only
On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Carlo Florendo wrote: The front page of the cygwin/xfree website says that: Cygwin/X is installed via Cygwin's setup.exe and the installation process is documented in the Cygwin/X User's Guide. Whether or not you already have Cygwin installed, you can add Cygwin/X to your installation by downloading the latest setup.exe, running setup, and selecting the 'xorg-x11-base' package from the 'X11' category. However, selecting only the xorg-x11-base package would install only: selecting the xorg-x11-base package would select all other required x11 packages too and install them. /usr/X11R6/share/doc/Cygwin/xorg-x11-base-6.8.1.0.README /etc/profile.d/00xorg-x11-base.csh /etc/profile.d/00xorg-x11-base.sh You may want to add something like this after the paragraph quoted above: Once you have installed the 'xorg-x11-base' package, open your /usr/X11R6/share/doc/Cygwin/xorg-x11-base-version_number.README file and install (via setup) the package dependencies listed there. If selecting of dependencies is not working then it's a problem with the cygwin installer and should be reported to the cygwin mailing list. In any case, any hints on why installing xorg fails? I've not seen this before. All packages I've uploaded are tested including a simple install test on a clean host. Everything was fine. The messages from the cygwin mailinglist indicate a problem with setup.exe and not with the packages. bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723
Re: xorg installation fails, 99% complete only
Carlo Florendo wrote: Hello Cygwin/XFree gurus, I've installed cygwin on a WinXP SP2 machine and setup looped forever up to the point when it was post-installing the xorg applications. I got 99% done. This issue has been discussed last week only as started by these 2 separate threads of messages: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-11/msg00214.html http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-11/msg00253.html However, the issue has not been resolved. Then, I uninstalled everything and re-installed cygwin any *without* selecting anything from the X11 category. All went well! Then, I just thought of installing the X apps manually. The front page of the cygwin/xfree website says that: Cygwin/X is installed via Cygwin's setup.exe and the installation process is documented in the Cygwin/X User's Guide. Whether or not you already have Cygwin installed, you can add Cygwin/X to your installation by downloading the latest setup.exe, running setup, and selecting the 'xorg-x11-base' package from the 'X11' category. However, selecting only the xorg-x11-base package would install only: /usr/X11R6/share/doc/Cygwin/xorg-x11-base-6.8.1.0.README /etc/profile.d/00xorg-x11-base.csh /etc/profile.d/00xorg-x11-base.sh Thus, it would probably be better to update the main page such that it wouldn't be misleading. (Other users might think only xorg-X11-base should be installed since that is what the website says.) The README file contains the needed package dependencies so once could follow from that. However, not everyone reads the README. You may want to add something like this after the paragraph quoted above: Once you have installed the 'xorg-x11-base' package, open your /usr/X11R6/share/doc/Cygwin/xorg-x11-base-version_number.README file and install (via setup) the package dependencies listed there. In any case, any hints on why installing xorg fails? Please include me on the cc since I do not subscribe to the cygwin/xfree list. Thanks! Thanks! Best Regards, Carlo -- Carlo Florendo Astra Philippines Inc. www.astra.ph Don't install Xorg. that is what Hanu told me.
Re: xorg installation fails, 99% complete only
On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Bobby McNulty wrote: Carlo Florendo wrote: Don't install Xorg. that is what Hanu told me. Did he also tell why? If the xorg packages are the problem then it should be solved instead of avoided. bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723
Re: xorg installation fails, 99% complete only
--- Alexander Gottwald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Bobby McNulty wrote: Did he also tell why? If the xorg packages are the problem then it should be solved instead of avoided. bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723 I just wanted to add that I am having the exact same installation packages. For me, without the X11 packages cygwin is useless. __ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com
Re: xorg installation fails, 99% complete only
Daniel Newhouse wrote: --- Alexander Gottwald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Bobby McNulty wrote: Did he also tell why? If the xorg packages are the problem then it should be solved instead of avoided. bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723 I just wanted to add that I am having the exact same installation packages. For me, without the X11 packages cygwin is useless. __ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com I'm not installing cygwin on my machine until the xorg problem is resolved. One program I wanted to port to Cygwin is Rosegarden. Which I can't because Xorg is not installing, so that means the kde port won't work,. The KDE port won't work either. Get Harold Hunt back here to fix this. The current maintainers have no idea what they are doing. Bobby
Re: xorg installation fails, 99% complete only
On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Bobby McNulty wrote: I'm not installing cygwin on my machine until the xorg problem is resolved. One program I wanted to port to Cygwin is Rosegarden. Which I can't because Xorg is not installing, so that means the kde port won't work,. The KDE port won't work either. Get Harold Hunt back here to fix this. The current maintainers have no idea what they are doing. Provide me with useful information and I'll take a look. As I've said it was working for me until last week. I've not received any useful data which may help tracking this down. Maybe you'll find a solution then it's all good. If not then stop insulting me or do it better. bye ago, enraged -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723
Re: xorg installation fails, 99% complete only
Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Bobby McNulty wrote: I'm not installing cygwin on my machine until the xorg problem is resolved. One program I wanted to port to Cygwin is Rosegarden. Which I can't because Xorg is not installing, so that means the kde port won't work,. The KDE port won't work either. Get Harold Hunt back here to fix this. The current maintainers have no idea what they are doing. Provide me with useful information and I'll take a look. As I've said it was working for me until last week. I've not received any useful data which may help tracking this down. Maybe you'll find a solution then it's all good. If not then stop insulting me or do it better. bye ago, enraged Alex, I think the problem is with setup. Because when setup gets to the fontserver, where 4 people are complaining so far, it stalls on a readme file. I'll try it again. Wish me luck. And I will take you up on your offer, once Cygwin is installed with xorg, to help you improve it. Sorry for the insult, but under Harolld, he would have everything tested on different machines and configurations. I'm running Windows XP professional with Service Pack #2. Find out what the others are using.
Re: xorg installation fails, 99% complete only
On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 01:04:04PM -0600, Bobby McNulty wrote: Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Bobby McNulty wrote: I'm not installing cygwin on my machine until the xorg problem is resolved. One program I wanted to port to Cygwin is Rosegarden. Which I can't because Xorg is not installing, so that means the kde port won't work,. The KDE port won't work either. Get Harold Hunt back here to fix this. The current maintainers have no idea what they are doing. Provide me with useful information and I'll take a look. As I've said it was working for me until last week. I've not received any useful data which may help tracking this down. Maybe you'll find a solution then it's all good. If not then stop insulting me or do it better. bye ago, enraged Alex, I think the problem is with setup. Because when setup gets to the fontserver, where 4 people are complaining so far, it stalls on a readme file. It works fine for me. Just tried it. You've been reading the cygwin mailing list long enough to know that you have not provided the slightest shred of useful data Bobby, either provide useful information or just shut up. Telling everyone what you are going to do or not going to do and insulting people is totally unproductive. Do me a favor and don't even respond to this email. Either provide some details or just be quiet. Useful details might be, for example, ps -ef output. cgf
Running startx from cygwin shell
Hei ! I get fatal error when running startx. It says a fatal error has occurred and Cygwin/x will now exit (Release:6.8.10-1) XWin was started with the following command-line: x:0-multiwindow-clipboard. I am very grateful for help. Truly, Elin Aronsen
Re: xorg installation fails, 99% complete only
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 01:04:04PM -0600, Bobby McNulty wrote: Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Bobby McNulty wrote: I'm not installing cygwin on my machine until the xorg problem is resolved. One program I wanted to port to Cygwin is Rosegarden. Which I can't because Xorg is not installing, so that means the kde port won't work,. The KDE port won't work either. Get Harold Hunt back here to fix this. The current maintainers have no idea what they are doing. Provide me with useful information and I'll take a look. As I've said it was working for me until last week. I've not received any useful data which may help tracking this down. Maybe you'll find a solution then it's all good. If not then stop insulting me or do it better. bye ago, enraged Alex, I think the problem is with setup. Because when setup gets to the fontserver, where 4 people are complaining so far, it stalls on a readme file. It works fine for me. Just tried it. You've been reading the cygwin mailing list long enough to know that you have not provided the slightest shred of useful data Bobby, either provide useful information or just shut up. Telling everyone what you are going to do or not going to do and insulting people is totally unproductive. Do me a favor and don't even respond to this email. Either provide some details or just be quiet. Useful details might be, for example, ps -ef output. cgf 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.
Re: xorg installation fails, 99% complete only
Thank you all for the replies. I'm sorry but it seems that I wasn't cc'd for all messages (I mentioned I'm not part of the Cygwin/XFree ML). So, I just replied to my original message. (Sorry if this breaks the thread.) So, I've just checked the ML website and read up to the one of Bobby Mc Nulty's message on 09 Nov 2004: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-11/msg00031.html In any case, I am not able to replicate the problem now since I'm on Win2K SP4. The problem only appears to be on WinXP SP2. I'm sorry I'm not providing anything useful (e.g. No ps -ef nor cygcheck output) since I won't be able to get hold of the WinXP SP2 machine now. I'll probably be able to do it, but off-line. The post last 04 Nov 2004, http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-11/msg00167.html, says that xorg stalled via setup on a WinXP SP2. I don't know if there's a correlation. In any case, the issue with setup is that it doesn't install the dependencies of xorg-base. I installed cygwin without the X and afterwards, installed xorg-base (since that is what the Cygwin/XFree site says). However, only the script files get installed. (I'll post a message to the cygwin-list). I got everything working after installing (via setup) the dependencies listed on the xorg README file. Thanks! Best Regards, Carlo Carlo Florendo wrote: Hello Cygwin/XFree gurus, I've installed cygwin on a WinXP SP2 machine and setup looped forever up to the point when it was post-installing the xorg applications. I got 99% done. This issue has been discussed last week only as started by these 2 separate threads of messages: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-11/msg00214.html http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-11/msg00253.html However, the issue has not been resolved. Then, I uninstalled everything and re-installed cygwin any *without* selecting anything from the X11 category. All went well! Then, I just thought of installing the X apps manually. The front page of the cygwin/xfree website says that: Cygwin/X is installed via Cygwin's setup.exe and the installation process is documented in the Cygwin/X User's Guide. Whether or not you already have Cygwin installed, you can add Cygwin/X to your installation by downloading the latest setup.exe, running setup, and selecting the 'xorg-x11-base' package from the 'X11' category. However, selecting only the xorg-x11-base package would install only: /usr/X11R6/share/doc/Cygwin/xorg-x11-base-6.8.1.0.README /etc/profile.d/00xorg-x11-base.csh /etc/profile.d/00xorg-x11-base.sh Thus, it would probably be better to update the main page such that it wouldn't be misleading. (Other users might think only xorg-X11-base should be installed since that is what the website says.) The README file contains the needed package dependencies so once could follow from that. However, not everyone reads the README. You may want to add something like this after the paragraph quoted above: Once you have installed the 'xorg-x11-base' package, open your /usr/X11R6/share/doc/Cygwin/xorg-x11-base-version_number.README file and install (via setup) the package dependencies listed there. In any case, any hints on why installing xorg fails? Please include me on the cc since I do not subscribe to the cygwin/xfree list. Thanks! Thanks! Best Regards, Carlo -- Carlo Florendo Astra Philippines Inc. www.astra.ph
on winXP sp2, setup loops forever when installing xorg-base
Hello, I've tried installing cygwin with X on a Win-XP SP2 box. However, installation stalls at 99% when installing some xorg packages. Message says: Cannot open log file C:\cygwin/var/log/setup.log for writing Yes, the '\' and '/' are as is :) This problem is similar to the one from: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-11/msg00253.html (6 Nov 2004) So, I reinstalled cygwin without the X, and went to the Cygwin/Xfree website to see how to install X. The site says that we just need to install xorg-base and we will have X working. However, installing xorg-base installs a couple of script files and a README. I read the README and installed (via setup, ofcourse :) )the packages listed as dependencies. *All worked well now.* :) However, isn't setup suppose to do this? I posted this problem on the cygwin-xfree mailing list and someone hinted that since setup doesn't install dependencies, this could be a setup problem (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-11/msg00022.html) Is this an X or a setup problem? (I'm at a loss so I posted to cygwin and cygwin-xfree). Please advise on where to post. Thanks! Best Regards, Carlo -- Carlo Florendo Astra Philippines Inc. www.astra.ph
Re: on winXP sp2, setup loops forever when installing xorg-base
Sorry. I should've mentioned at the beginning of the mail that I'm just cross posting to cygwin-xfree for FYI (since I've discussed this already yesterday.). The mail was intended for the cygwin ML but I cc'd cygwin-xfree for FYI. Carlo Florendo wrote: Hello, I've tried installing cygwin with X on a Win-XP SP2 box. However, installation stalls at 99% when installing some xorg packages. Message says: Cannot open log file C:\cygwin/var/log/setup.log for writing Yes, the '\' and '/' are as is :) This problem is similar to the one from: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-11/msg00253.html (6 Nov 2004) So, I reinstalled cygwin without the X, and went to the Cygwin/Xfree website to see how to install X. The site says that we just need to install xorg-base and we will have X working. However, installing xorg-base installs a couple of script files and a README. I read the README and installed (via setup, ofcourse :) )the packages listed as dependencies. *All worked well now.* :) However, isn't setup suppose to do this? I posted this problem on the cygwin-xfree mailing list and someone hinted that since setup doesn't install dependencies, this could be a setup problem (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-11/msg00022.html) Is this an X or a setup problem? (I'm at a loss so I posted to cygwin and cygwin-xfree). Please advise on where to post. Thanks! Best Regards, Carlo -- Carlo Florendo Astra Philippines Inc. www.astra.ph
