[SOLVED - mysteriously...not quite] Re: xorg installation fails, 99% complete only

[Carlo Florendo]

Sorry, here's cygcheck and setup.log

Carlo Florendo wrote:

> Carlo Florendo wrote:
>
>> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>
>>> It seems like you have a lot of XFree86 packages still installed.
>>> I have a couple of these in my installation but certainly not the
>>> number that I see above.
>>
>>
>>
>> Yes.  I did it after installing cygwin minus xorg.   Regarding the 
>> (version) numbers, I don't remember choosing other versions besides 
>> the ones indicated by default  at setup.
>>
>>>
>>> I guess I'm a little confused now as to who's seeing what problem.
>>> I thought that you needed a clean install to duplicate this but the
>>> above obviously didn't come from a clean install.
>>
>>
>>
>> I'll be doing a clean uninstall and reinstall in a short while.
>> Thank you cygwin people for doing such a great job at cygwin!  I'm 
>> seeing this not as a problem (Really!!!) but another exciting episode 
>> of the wonders of open source software and open-source 
>> collaboration.  Thank you!
>>
>> Cygwin Rocks!
>>
> I tried to reproduce the problem on the WinXP SP2 machine in question 
> and I was unsuccessful in reproducing it...
>
> Cygwin installed like a charm =)
>
> Now, I don't  know why such is the case. 
> Hmmm...To tell the truth, I was actually asking  someone to follow 
> instructions from me, (i.e. press this button, select "Unix", click 
> ok, etc.).  However, when I myself tried do a fresh uninstall and 
> fresh install, all worked well.
> In any case, I'm now attaching cygcheck.out and setup.log (compressed) 
> so the experts could point out what difference it had with my previous 
> posting of cygcheck.out and setup.log,
>
> My suspicion is that the one whom I asked to install cygwin did 
> something else that she didn't tell me....(What I saw when she was 
> installing cygwin was the "99% completed" on xorg that never stopped.  
> This, I verified with my  eyes.   On her following my instructions,  I 
> didn't see it with my own eyes.  She just said she did.)
>
> Sheesh...sorry for all these noise for the past 3 days.
> Thank you to all you cygwin developers.
>
> Cygwin Rocks!
>
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Carlo
>


-- 
Carlo Florendo
Astra Philippines Inc.
www.astra.ph

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