Re: Can Not Install Font Packages

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Igor,

The problem has been happening less often, but I am all for fixing it 
permanently.

It sounds to me like a pre-remove script would function at the wrong 
time, if my assumption that the pre-remove script is run before the 
files are removed is correct.  Sounds to me like we would need a 
post-remove script that had unmounted the directory if it was still mounted.

Also, neither a pre-remove nor a post-remove script would work in this 
case.  The problem here is that his alternate hard drive crashed, thus 
no remove scripts were ever run.  Upon reinstalling Cygwin he had a 
problem because the package is unpacked to its destination directory 
before any scripts are run.  Setup was trying to write files to a mount 
point that didn't exist.

Maybe this needs a more generic fix in setup.exe to detect when it is 
attempting to write files to a mount point that doesn't have an actual 
location on disk.  Perhaps in that case it could either fail 
(acceptable) or present a dialog asking if the mount should be removed 
and the unpacking tried again.

What do you think?

Harold

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> Harold,
>
> Do you think the pre-remove scripts for the fonts packages should attempt
> to unmount the directory?  It's very hard to get this right, though,
> because this has to be done by the *last* package being uninstalled.  I
> can think of one quick and dirty solution, but maybe we should do some
> brainstorming first and try to do it right.  I'm willing to help out with
> coding the final solution, whatever it is.
> 	Igor
>
> On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
>
>
> > Joshua,
> >
> > Please run in a bash shell:
> >
> > umount /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
> >
> > You may need to twiddle the parameters to umount a little, with the
> > point being that you need to remove the mount for the fonts directory as
> > it probably points to a non-existant directory or drive.
> >
> > Harold
> >
> > Joshua Rubin wrote:
> >
> >
> > > I am finding out more about why this is not installing right...
> > >
> > > In a bash shell (not using X), I CAN NOT create the fonts folder.
> > >
> > > This is the output.
> > >
> > > $ mkdir fonts
> > > mkdir: cannot create directory `fonts': No such file or directory
> > >
> > > It seems that something from my old install is causing this.  Does
> > > anyone have a clue?!?
> > >
> > > Joshua