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

[marco atzeri]

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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