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RE: xfree86 install makes wininit not working
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: "Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>,<cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 12:56:45 +1000
- Subject: RE: xfree86 install makes wininit not working
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harold Hunt [mailto:huntharo@msu.edu]
> Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 12:47 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Cc: Robert Collins
> Subject: RE: xfree86 install makes wininit not working
>
>
> Robert,
>
> Cygwin's setup.exe doesn't use wininit.ini, does it? I'm
> going to guess that the answer is something along the lines
> of "no way in hell", but I figure I had better check with you.
It does, via the proscribed windows API to perform copy-on-reboot for
in-use files in win95.
Windows is meant to perform the copies before loading the GUI, and then
remove the ini entries after it does that.
If I could get some details - the /var/log/setup.log and setup.log.full,
and the machine layout (where windows cygwin etc are), and a copy of the
ineffective wininit.ini, I will see what I can figure out.
As to why this happened, I assume that the user was running X at the
same time as installing it via setup.exe.
Rob