Serious Installation problems - possible workround but rapid fix required.

[John Macallister]

> Your abbreviation of the error message is rather unhelpful. I have no
idea what that error is.


I've repeated the installation procedure and this is what happens.


Start with clean (no Cygwin files on disk) Windows2000 system.

Downloaded kit from Internet using "Install".

This completes successfully.

Install from this downloaded kit, again using "Install".

This proceeds until:

93%  In-use files have been replaced. You need to reboot as soon as
possible to activate the new versions.
      Cygwin may operate incorrectly until you reboot.

     The Progress window indicates:
         
       _update-info-dir-00230-1

      /usr/X11R6/share/doc/Cygwin/xorg-x11-f100-6.8.1.0.README 

Clicking OK then produces the folllowing window.

     Can't open Package Database for writing: No such file or directory.

The procedure completes but Cygwin has not been properly installed.

Rebooting makes no difference.



I hope this is helpful.

Cheers,

 John




Name: John B. Macallister  E-mail: j.macallister1@physics.ox.ac.uk
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