RE: fatal IO error 104 on start

["Greg Jewell" <gjewell at cnnxn dot com>]

Hi again,

I just read this explanation you gave to Jim.  I'm sure that you are correct about this, but the machine that I just installed Cygwin on had no previous installation of it.  I did install to my D drive, but there should have been nothing in the registry at that point.


Greg


-----Original Message-----
From: Harold L Hunt II [mailto:huntharo@msu.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 6:28 PM
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: fatal IO error 104 on start


Jim,

Jim Scheef wrote:
> Harold,
> 
> I had this same problem. Your suggestions resolved the font problem. The
> first umount returned no messages, the second gave a "file not found" error.
> Does this problem indicate trouble in the setup scripts? 
> 
> Best of all, I can type into xterm for the first time in months.
> 
> Is there someplace I can find more about the problems caused by installing
> Microsoft Services for UNIX along with Cygwin Xfree86?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jim
> MSU '68

Well, since you are an MSU grad, I will answer your questions :)  I'm 
about to be a two time grad in May.  Wish me luck...

There is not really a "problem" with the setup scripts, so much as there 
is a problem with installing Cygwin/X to a drive other than your C 
drive, removing that drive from the computer without uninstalling 
Cygwin/X, then trying to install Cygwin/X to your C drive.  In that case 
a mount is left in your registry that points to your D drive, setup.exe 
tries to unpack the files on the D drive, but fails because it cannot 
find that drive anymore.  We would need a "preinstall" script that iced 
the mounts, then recreated them... but setup.exe does not support such a 
script (I don't believe it does).  Keep in mind that this is just and 
example; there are a plethora of reasons that you might end up in a 
similar situation.

Yes, there is more info about Services for UNIX:

http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-xfree-faq.html#microsoft-services-for-unix

Have fun with Cygwin/X,

Harold