Re: xorg installation fails, 99% complete only

[Carlo Florendo <carlo at sgies dot com>]

Thank you all for the replies.  I'm sorry but it seems that I wasn't 
cc'd for all messages (I mentioned I'm not part of the Cygwin/XFree ML).
So, I just replied to my original message.  (Sorry if this breaks the 
thread.)

So, I've just checked the ML website and read up to the one of Bobby Mc 
Nulty's message on 09 Nov 2004:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-11/msg00031.html

In any case, I am not able to replicate the problem now since I'm on 
Win2K SP4.  The problem only appears to be on WinXP SP2.  I'm sorry I'm 
not providing anything useful (e.g. No ps -ef nor cygcheck output) since 
I won't be able to get hold of the WinXP SP2 machine now.  I'll probably
be able to do it, but off-line.

The post last 04 Nov 2004, 
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-11/msg00167.html,
says that xorg stalled via setup on a WinXP SP2.  I don't know if 
there's a correlation.

In any case, the issue with setup is that it doesn't install the 
dependencies of xorg-base.  I installed cygwin without the X and
afterwards, installed xorg-base (since that is what the Cygwin/XFree 
site says).
However, only the script files get installed.  (I'll post a message to
the cygwin-list).  I got everything working after installing (via setup) 
the dependencies listed on the xorg README file.

Thanks!

Best Regards,

Carlo




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
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