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plotutils-2.6-4 postinstall error in cygwin 2.5.0


Hello,

While performing a fresh install of cygwin 2.5.0 x86_64 on Windows 7 64-bit I encountered the following postinstall error for plotutils-2.6-4:

Excerpt from setup.log:
2016/04/17 20:07:07 running: E:\Cygwin64\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/plotutils.sh"
2016/04/17 20:07:09 abnormal exit: exit code=1

Manually re-running the /etc/postinstall/plotutils.sh script appears to resolve the issue. However, re-running the script will re-induce the failure as demonstrated below.

    $ /etc/postinstall/plotutils.sh ; echo $?
    0

    $ /etc/postinstall/plotutils.sh ; echo $?
    /usr/share/fonts/misc: failed to write cache
    1

    $ /etc/postinstall/plotutils.sh ; echo $?
    0

To ensure it is not re-run again later, I simply did the following until the script was renamed to its .done form: $ /etc/postinstall/plotutils.sh && mv /etc/postinstall/plotutils.sh /etc/postinstall/plotutils.sh.done
    /usr/share/fonts/misc: failed to write cache

$ /etc/postinstall/plotutils.sh && mv /etc/postinstall/plotutils.sh /etc/postinstall/plotutils.sh.done

While this is a work-around, I thought it was worth reporting with the hope that it would be resolved during the setup phase in the future.

Best regards,
Ken


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