xorg installation fails, 99% complete only

[Gerrit P. Haase]

Roboco Sanchez wrote:

> I'm not sure what different posting you're referring to. Maybe they
 > all provide correct information and maybe they are two or more
 > different problems?

One was from Hannu which was about a completely different issue which I 
replied in lenght, the other was from Bobby today, I saw nothing else, 
sorry.

>>I just reinstalled this xorg-x11-fscl package now, it works fine on NT4 
>>AND it works fine on XP/SP2.
>>
>>$ cygcheck -c xorg-x11-fscl
>>Cygwin Package Information
>>Package              Version        Status
>>xorg-x11-fscl        6.8.1.0-2      OK
> 
> Did you use setup.exe? Did you reinstall to and existing package? 
 > This problem (the one by Bobby which you replied to above) occurs
 > when you install Cygwin on a fresh XP using setup.exe .

Of course, I use always setup.exe.  It was a reinstallation which 
indicates that it works well before at least one time.  I cannot install 
a fresh XP.  Maybe you need to turn off the firewall?  I don't know, I 
have deactivated every new feature which comes with SP2 because I'm an 
adminstrator, I don't need a dummy user software firewall which does 
nothing else but prevent me fromn accessing my network.  We use hardware 
firewalls.


> Please read all these posts. They are exactly the same problem (but 
 > maybe with different warning/error msgs and/or different
 > posting styles):

> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-11/msg00081.html [Bobby's, 03/11]

"Its freezing while set up fsrv", no cygcheck.

> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-11/msg00166.html [Ling's, 04/11]

"x11-fsrv font server at README" , no cygcheck output.

> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-11/msg00167.html [Bobby's, 04/11]

"Me too..." no cygcheck output.

> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-11/msg00246.html [Ling's, 06/11]

"Cygwin setup seems to freezes at xorg-x11-fenc-6.8.1.0.README", no 
cygcheck output.

> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-11/msg00253.html [Mine, 06/11]

"freezing at xorg-x11-nest-6.8.1.0-1" and "now at 
xorg-x11-fscl-6.8.1.0-2" and no cygcheck output.

> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-11/msg00335.html [Carlo's, 09/11]

"Cannot open log file C:\cygwin/var/log/setup.log for writing"

Hmmm, another problem?  Anyway, no cygcheck output.

There are some useful bits, at least in your posting where is clearly 
stated that it is not a specific package.

However there was no cygcheck output, all reports about nearly the same 
issue.  I cannot reproduce it.  I have a different problem now myself, 
but at first some historical notes. At my first setup.exe run with 
XP/SP2 it  crashed, I tracked it down myself after nobody was able to 
help, it was some dubious M$ software installed, I removed it, cleaned 
the registry and now it works.  Well, now I get an error when a 
preremove/postinstall script should be executed: ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED, 
which indicates that XP refuses setup.exe to access parts of the 
filesystem, ie. it was a problem with cron.sh, running from the command 
line works well.  It is simply a problem with the ACL on this system (I 
have XP Pro).  I have not figured out what the problem is now.  Funny 
thing is that I always have another new problem when running setup on XP 
and I have never problems when running on W2K or NT4.

I suggest we should all go to the local XP dealer and complain!
Get the money back. Your local dealer will not be that friendly as he 
was the day when you bought the system, but maybe he has an old copy of 
W2K lying around, pay the same price, no problem, W2K is better.

>>Why don't you send the output of cygcheck -srv as an attachment?
> I wish we could do that before or while running setup.exe .

Nope, it is completely sufficient when you install a cygwin base system 
and run `cygcheck -svr > cygcheck.out` and send it as an attachment.

What is in the Eventlog?  Do you have XP Home or XP Pro, is there an 
Eventlog at all at XP Home?  We really need more information and you 
have the error and should help to collect this informations.

At least for the archives, when we figure out what the problem is we can 
introduce features in cygcheck to check for these issues, but we need to 
know the reason of the problem.


>>Maybe your mount table is broken?  Maybe your XP/SP2 is broken?
> 
> 3-4 people have been reporting this problem. Maybe their XP all are broken.

XP has many new features, figure out what they have published about SP2, 
turn off all the useless security fuzz.


>>Why are you not providing more information?
> 
> Problem is users don't know what "more information" develpers want. Developers 
> got to ask (or demand, whatever) from users.

http://cygwin.com/problems.html

This is the fifth hyperlink at the left hand side of the main website, 
read it and try to provide some useful information, please.

>>You cannot expect that we can fix a problem which we don't have, 
 >>I cannot help debugging it without even seeing the problem.
> 
> Again, 3-4 people having the same problem should be enough to confirm that there 
> really is a problem.

I have problems too, but I don't complain, I try to figure what is 
wrong, you can help to find a solution, but complaining doesn't help, 
the same as saying "I see the same issue...".

> Is there any way users can turn on debugging mode when running setup.exe? Things 
> would be a lot easier if users could do so.

No, but you can look at the log in /var/log/setup.log:
2004/11/09 22:57:27 Installing 
file://G:\NewZealand\mirrors.rcn.net\pub\sourceware\cygwin/release/X11/xorg-x11-fscl/xorg-x11-fscl-6.8.1.0-2.tar.bz2
2004/11/09 22:57:32 Visited: 494 nodes out of 612.
[...]
2004/11/09 22:57:33 running: H:\\bin\sh.exe -c 
/etc/postinstall/xorg-x11-fscl.sh
2004/11/09 22:57:45 mbox note: Installation Complete
2004/11/09 22:57:47 Ending cygwin install


Gerrit
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