wrong size for package

Dave Korn dave.korn@artimi.com
Mon Oct 15 12:06:00 GMT 2007


On 15 October 2007 09:44, Bausch, Jean wrote:

> I am trying to install x11 with the setup.exe (version 2.573.2.2).
> 
> During the download I always get a message 'Download Incomplete'.
> Retrying with the same or other servers doesn't change anything.
> 
> /var/log/setup.log.full says:
> 
> 2007/10/12 14:54:10 Download
> d:\cygwin_install/ftp%3a%2f%2fftp.sunet.se%2fpub%2f
>  lang%2fcygwin/release/X11/xorg-x11-fnts/xorg-x11-fnts-6.8.99.901-1.tar.bz2
> wrong size (0 actual vs 17456937 expected) 2007/10/12 14:54:10 mbox yesno:
> Download Incomplete.  Try again? 
> 
> Of course startx doesn't work afterwards, as it can't find fixed fonts.
> 
> Any suggestions? Thank you in advance!

  I dunno what exactly happened or how, but I once found my xorg-x11-fnts
package in the local package dir was messed up in some way that fatally
confused setup.exe in a similar fashion.  What worked for me was blowing away
all the xorg-x11-fnts dirs that I could find in all the different per-mirror
directories in my local package dir and rerunning setup.exe to let it download
what it needed again.

  You might find it worth trying a different mirror just to be on the safe
side, but I just used an ftp client to fetch
xorg-x11-fnts-6.8.99.901-1.tar.bz2 manually and then verified its md5sum, so I
think the mirror itself is ok.



    cheers,
      DaveK
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