XFree86 install fails

[Chris plonski]

Thanks!  This did the trick!  I just have a question now, where is this
mount information stored?  I started out by deleting any previous cygwin
directory trees.  Does cygwin use the windows registry to save previous
configurations?

On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 18:39, Harold Hunt wrote:
> Chris,
> 
> You need to run ``mount'' from a Cygwin bash prompt and check the location
> of your fonts mount.  For example, here is what I get:
> 
> Administrator@HUNTHARO ~
> $ mount
> C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts type system
> (binmo
> de)
> C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode)
> C:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode)
> c:\PalmDev on /PalmDev type system (textmode)
> C:\cygwin on / type system (binmode)
> c: on /cygdrive/c type user (binmode,noumount)
> w: on /cygdrive/w type user (binmode,noumount)
> y: on /cygdrive/y type user (binmode,noumount)
> z: on /cygdrive/z type user (binmode,noumount)
> 
> 
> My guess is that at some point you had Cygwin/XFree86 installed to a
> different drive that is no longer available.  You can unmount your current
> mount for /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts and either 1) remount it if your default
> mount is not binary mode, or 2) leave out that mount if your default mount
> is binary mode.
> 
> Harold
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> > [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Chris Plonski
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 5:47 PM
> > To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> > Subject: XFree86 install fails
> >
> >
> > I have seen this on multiple Win2k SP3 machines.  I cannot
> > perform a new install of the XFree86 package.  The setup proceeds
> > as normal till it gets to the fonts.  It will freeze unpacking
> > the first font package, and I have to cancel.  I have tried to
> > manually running bunzip2 on any of the fonts packages, and it
> > fails with aas follows:
> >
> > $ bunzip2 XFree86-fenc-4.2.0-2.tar.bz2
> >
> > bunzip2: I/O or other error, bailing out.  Possible reason follows.
> > bunzip2: Invalid argument
> >         Input file = XFree86-fenc-4.2.0-2.tar.bz2, output file =
> > XFree86-fenc-4.
> > 2.0-2.tar
> > bunzip2: Deleting output file XFree86-fenc-4.2.0-2.tar, if it exists.
> >
> > Using a win utility to extract out the .tar file and issuing a
> > tar -xvf command does as follows:
> > $ tar -xvf XFree86-fenc-4.2.0-2.tar
> > usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/
> > tar: usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts: Cannot mkdir: No such file or directory
> > usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings/
> > tar: usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings: Cannot mkdir: No such
> > file or directory
> >
> > I attempted to simply issue a mkdir command as follows, and it
> > fails doing that too!
> >
> > $ mkdir /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
> > mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts': No
> > such file or directory
> >
> > What's up?
>