RE: Full install on XP hangs at /etc/X11/abb-defaults/Bitmap
I had a similar problem a few months ago and also resolved it by installing first some basic packages and after the rest of the packages. Before that, I tried to remove the file were install hanged but after removing that, it hanged in other file (the next one, I think). I repeated this process a several times times and as I removed the files, the hang was always in the next file and the percentage of the installed files grew. At some point, I've excluded enough files to complete the installation After, I uninstalled everything (didn't trusted that kind of installation), selected some basic packages and installed them and after that I selected the rest of the packages and installed them also. Everything went OK. Maybe the setup cannot process such an amount of files like the one on a full installation at one time. --Lino Tinoco On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 10:40:03AM +0100, Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, Greg Schussman wrote: I've just tried to do a full install of cygwin/X on Windows XP. The install hangs at 90%, saying: Installing xorgx-x11-etc-6.8.180.1 /etc/X11/app-defaults/Bitmap When I look at the file structure, etc/X11/app-defaults is a file, not a directory. Perhaps this is the problem (how can one write to app-defaults/Bitmap if app-defaults is not a directory)? This is really strange. Did you have anything from cygwin installed before? I could not find any cygwin package which does not create /etc/X11/app-defaults as file instead of a directory.
Re: Full install on XP hangs at /etc/X11/abb-defaults/Bitmap
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 04:19:49PM -, Lino Miguel Martins Tinoco wrote: Maybe the setup cannot process such an amount of files like the one on a full installation at one time. setup.exe has been updated at http://cygwin.com/setup.exe so that it should no longer have this problem. cgf
Re: Full install on XP hangs at /etc/X11/abb-defaults/Bitmap
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 10:40:03AM +0100, Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, Greg Schussman wrote: I've just tried to do a full install of cygwin/X on Windows XP. The install hangs at 90%, saying: Installing xorgx-x11-etc-6.8.180.1 /etc/X11/app-defaults/Bitmap When I look at the file structure, etc/X11/app-defaults is a file, not a directory. Perhaps this is the problem (how can one write to app-defaults/Bitmap if app-defaults is not a directory)? This is really strange. Did you have anything from cygwin installed before? I could not find any cygwin package which does not create /etc/X11/app-defaults as file instead of a directory. Was there ever any resolution about this? It was a strange error and it would have been nice to track it down. cgf
Re: Full install on XP hangs at /etc/X11/abb-defaults/Bitmap
On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, Greg Schussman wrote: Hi. I've just tried to do a full install of cygwin/X on Windows XP. The install hangs at 90%, saying: Installing xorgx-x11-etc-6.8.180.1 /etc/X11/app-defaults/Bitmap When I look at the file structure, etc/X11/app-defaults is a file, not a directory. Perhaps this is the problem (how can one write to app-defaults/Bitmap if app-defaults is not a directory)? This is really strange. Did you have anything from cygwin installed before? I could not find any cygwin package which does not create /etc/X11/app-defaults as file instead of a directory. bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723
Re: Full install on XP hangs at /etc/X11/abb-defaults/Bitmap
Is this not the same hang that has been address here and in the Cygwin List and the cygwin-apps list. If so please see other threads on this same subject in the mailing list archives and the cygwin list archives and if it is then the fix (for now) as posted many times is break the install into 2 steps: first install only the base packages and then install eveything else. bk
Re: Full install on XP hangs at /etc/X11/abb-defaults/Bitmap
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 04:02:33PM -0500, Brian Keener wrote: Is this not the same hang that has been address here and in the Cygwin List and the cygwin-apps list. If so please see other threads on this same subject in the mailing list archives and the cygwin list archives and if it is then the fix (for now) as posted many times is break the install into 2 steps: first install only the base packages and then install eveything else. If /etc/X11/app-defaults is really being created as a file instead of a directory, this is the first that I've heard of it. It would be very interesting to hear why that is. But, then, maybe if we implemented that idea of not allowing setup.exe to have any bugs, or to at least have it issue an error before it was about to hit a bug, we'd be further down the line to fixing this. Just a suggestion. cgf
Full install on XP hangs at /etc/X11/abb-defaults/Bitmap
Hi. I've just tried to do a full install of cygwin/X on Windows XP. The install hangs at 90%, saying: Installing xorgx-x11-etc-6.8.180.1 /etc/X11/app-defaults/Bitmap When I look at the file structure, etc/X11/app-defaults is a file, not a directory. Perhaps this is the problem (how can one write to app-defaults/Bitmap if app-defaults is not a directory)? But I think this raises several other things which might benefit from fixing as well. 1) Instead of hanging, whatever is trying to do this write should be able to detect that there is a problem and report a meaningful error message. 2) It would probably be a good idea to test doing a full install on at least the most popular operating systems, especially Windows XP. That way, this sort of problem doesn't scare away potential new members of the cygwin/X user base, and doesn't generate negative P.R for the project. Thanks! Greg
