Chris, You need to run ``mount'' from a Cygwin bash prompt and check the location of your fonts mount. For example, here is what I get:
Administrator@HUNTHARO ~ $ mount C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts type system (binmo de) C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode) C:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode) c:\PalmDev on /PalmDev type system (textmode) C:\cygwin on / type system (binmode) c: on /cygdrive/c type user (binmode,noumount) w: on /cygdrive/w type user (binmode,noumount) y: on /cygdrive/y type user (binmode,noumount) z: on /cygdrive/z type user (binmode,noumount) My guess is that at some point you had Cygwin/XFree86 installed to a different drive that is no longer available. You can unmount your current mount for /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts and either 1) remount it if your default mount is not binary mode, or 2) leave out that mount if your default mount is binary mode. Harold > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Chris Plonski > Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 5:47 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: XFree86 install fails > > > 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?
