xorg installation fails, 99% complete only

[Bobby McNulty]

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.