xfree86 install makes wininit not working

Sylvain Petreolle spetreolle@yahoo.fr
Fri Apr 19 21:08:00 GMT 2002


> It does, via the proscribed windows API to perform
> copy-on-reboot for
> in-use files in win95.
> Windows is meant to perform the copies before
> loading the GUI, and then
> remove the ini entries after it does that.
Already know this (I develop for Wine Emulator :))
But that's ok to review point after point to see a
failure somewhere.
> 
> If I could get some details - the /var/log/setup.log
> and setup.log.full, and the machine layout (where
windows cygwin etc
> are), and a copy of the
> ineffective wininit.ini, I will see what I can
> figure out.
Ok, I attached them.

cygcheck -s -r -v follows separately (Yahoo doesn't
allow >3 attachments per message).

> 
> As to why this happened, I assume that the user was
> running X at the
> same time as installing it via setup.exe.
> 
> Rob 
I just updated Cygwin via typing
http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe in IE 6.

Cygwin-X wasn't running at the time.
Even Cygwin itself wasn't running.


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