I have seen this on multiple Win2k SP3 machines. I cannot perform a new install of
the XFree86 package. The setup proceeds as normal till it gets to the fonts. It will
freeze unpacking the first font package, and I have to cancel. I have tried to
manually running bunzip2 on any of the fonts packages, and it fails with aas follows:
$ bunzip2 XFree86-fenc-4.2.0-2.tar.bz2
bunzip2: I/O or other error, bailing out. Possible reason follows.
bunzip2: Invalid argument
Input file = XFree86-fenc-4.2.0-2.tar.bz2, output file = XFree86-fenc-4.
2.0-2.tar
bunzip2: Deleting output file XFree86-fenc-4.2.0-2.tar, if it exists.
Using a win utility to extract out the .tar file and issuing a tar -xvf command does
as follows:
$ tar -xvf XFree86-fenc-4.2.0-2.tar
usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/
tar: usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts: Cannot mkdir: No such file or directory
usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings/
tar: usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings: Cannot mkdir: No such file or directory
I attempted to simply issue a mkdir command as follows, and it fails doing that too!
$ mkdir /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts': No such file or directory
What's up?
