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Re: 1.7.9: Installing error: fonts and X-start-menu-icons


On 12/21/2011 7:32 AM, James Botte wrote:
I checked the FAQs, searched the list archives as best I could, and
Googled several combinations of the messages I received and could not
find anything. I did find references to some of the symptoms I describe,
but could not find any resolution to the issues.

This is a clean install of Cygwin on a Windows XP box using a Samba
share as the destination. I performed a minimal install using the
installer, tweaked the /etc/passwd file (due to Samba), added emacs,
then added the packages recommended in the Cygwin/X User's Guide
(http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/cygwin-x-ug.pdf): xorg-server, xinit,
xorg-docs, and X-start-menu-icons. I also explicitly selected xcalc (to
test the install), and xterm (dunno, just in case it wasn't
automagically done with the dependencies check). During the
installation, X-start-menu-icons.sh failed (from the setup.log file):

     2011/12/20 23:43:53 running: X:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc
       --noprofile /etc/postinstall/font-misc-misc.sh
     2011/12/20 23:44:17 running: X:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc
       --noprofile /etc/postinstall/font-alias.sh
     2011/12/20 23:45:48 running: X:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc
       --noprofile /etc/postinstall/font-adobe-dpi75.sh
     2011/12/20 23:46:45 running: X:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc
       --noprofile /etc/postinstall/X-start-menu-icons.sh
     2011/12/20 23:46:47 abnormal exit: exit code=126

However, when I looked at the setup.log.full, it was obvious that there
were other problems that didn't cause the postintall scripts to fail:

     2011/12/20 23:43:53 running: X:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc
       --noprofile /etc/postinstall/font-misc-misc.sh
     /etc/postinstall/font-misc-misc.sh: line 3:
       /usr/bin/mkfontdir: Permission denied

I guess you are installing on a drive X (network ?) that denies execution permission.

Marco





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