Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: texlive-collection-*-20120312-1

[Fergus <fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net>]

> >  /usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/urw/symbol: failed to write cache
> >  /usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/urw/times: failed to write cache
> >  /usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/urw/zapfchan: failed to write cache
> >  /usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/urw/zapfding: failed to write cache
> >  2012/03/14 07:29:42 abnormal exit: exit code=146


>  Those errors are coming from the calls to fc-cache in the new 
postinstall scripts.
>  Do you have the latest version of fontconfig installed?

Thank you for getting back so rapidly.
Yes, fontconfig is installed (and therefore I assume latest version). 
There is a
03/02/2012  09:11 178,702 /bin/cygfontconfig-1.dll
file There is also a /etc/postinstall/fontconfig.sh.done file.

(a)    Incidentally I originally installed texlive-collection over an 
obsolete tetex, which installation (a) took forever and (b) tailed off 
at the end with a fontconfig installation error that I reported at
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-03/msg00226.html.

(b)    So I then did what always seems to me to be the strategy of last 
resort: re-install brand new Cygwin from the ground up. Evidently 
successful - no error messages; presence of fontconfig.sh.done as 
stated; and until today's update of texlive-collection-*-20120312-1, no 
problems!

(c)    Just this minute I tried setup.exe again. Nothing new to install 
in the last 8 hours but setup still took 10 (no: nearer 20) minutes 
labouring over postinstall scripts (presumably taking a second crack at 
those it failed with previously? ... lacking the *.sh.done files?) and 
ended with a *similar but different* error announcement

Previously (8 hours ago):
Package: texlive-collection-basic
    texlive-collection-basic.sh exit code 146
Package: texlive-collection-fontsrecommended
    texlive-collection-fontsrecommended.sh exit code 146
Package: texlive-collection-fontsextra
    texlive-collection-fontsextra.sh exit code 146
Package: texlive-collection-pictures
    texlive-collection-pictures.sh exit code 146
Package: texlive-collection-latexextra
    texlive-collection-latexextra.sh exit code 146
Package: texlive-collection-science
    texlive-collection-science.sh exit code 146

Now:
Package: Unknown package
    texlive-collection-basic.sh exit code 146
    texlive-collection-fontsextra.sh exit code 146
    texlive-collection-fontsrecommended.sh exit code 146
    texlive-collection-latexextra.sh exit code 146
    texlive-collection-pictures.sh exit code 146
    texlive-collection-science.sh exit code 146

Fergus



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