Re: having problem fixing x installation and other minor things.

["Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com>]

Mike Marchywka wrote:
> >   The usual things: cygcheck to see if any packages are listed as 
> > incomplete,
>
> Thanks- as I indicated in PM your suggestion immediately pointed to the 
> groff install.
>
> > re-running setup.exe, looking in /etc/postinstall for scripts that aren't
>
> However, re-running setup isn't quite working because trying to 
> uninstall one particular
> item causes it to bomb. This xorg-x11-fnts isn't quite right as I can't 
> uninstall it :
> xorg-x11-fenc           6.8.99.901-1       OK
> xorg-x11-fnts           6.8.1.0-3          OK
> xorg-x11-fscl           6.8.99.901-1       OK
>
> What is the safest way to manually ( not using setup ) uninstall this 
> and do a clean
> reinstall or figure out what is causing setup to terminate? 

<http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.uninstall-packages>

> I did an 
> almost clean, except for above thing, uninstall and reinstall of X and 
> it still doesn't run. Also, it appears if I download packages
> first, and then try to reinstall from local directory that the packages 
> disappear during
> the uninstall even if needed for the subsequent install ( lots of 
> missing file dialog boxes
> and it didn't look like the reinstall actually happened).

Interesting.  Well, I recommend just doing the install which will download
and install in one step.  This way, you won't see whatever issue you have
been seeing.


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