Can Not Install Font Packages
Harold L Hunt II
huntharo@msu.edu
Mon Oct 20 19:09:00 GMT 2003
Igor,
The problem has been happening less often, but I am all for fixing it
permanently.
It sounds to me like a pre-remove script would function at the wrong
time, if my assumption that the pre-remove script is run before the
files are removed is correct. Sounds to me like we would need a
post-remove script that had unmounted the directory if it was still mounted.
Also, neither a pre-remove nor a post-remove script would work in this
case. The problem here is that his alternate hard drive crashed, thus
no remove scripts were ever run. Upon reinstalling Cygwin he had a
problem because the package is unpacked to its destination directory
before any scripts are run. Setup was trying to write files to a mount
point that didn't exist.
Maybe this needs a more generic fix in setup.exe to detect when it is
attempting to write files to a mount point that doesn't have an actual
location on disk. Perhaps in that case it could either fail
(acceptable) or present a dialog asking if the mount should be removed
and the unpacking tried again.
What do you think?
Harold
Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> Harold,
>
> Do you think the pre-remove scripts for the fonts packages should attempt
> to unmount the directory? It's very hard to get this right, though,
> because this has to be done by the *last* package being uninstalled. I
> can think of one quick and dirty solution, but maybe we should do some
> brainstorming first and try to do it right. I'm willing to help out with
> coding the final solution, whatever it is.
> Igor
>
> On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
>
>
>>Joshua,
>>
>>Please run in a bash shell:
>>
>>umount /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
>>
>>You may need to twiddle the parameters to umount a little, with the
>>point being that you need to remove the mount for the fonts directory as
>>it probably points to a non-existant directory or drive.
>>
>>Harold
>>
>>Joshua Rubin wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I am finding out more about why this is not installing right...
>>>
>>>In a bash shell (not using X), I CAN NOT create the fonts folder.
>>>
>>>This is the output.
>>>
>>>$ mkdir fonts
>>>mkdir: cannot create directory `fonts': No such file or directory
>>>
>>>It seems that something from my old install is causing this. Does
>>>anyone have a clue?!?
>>>
>>>Joshua
>
>
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