Thanks! This did the trick! I just have a question now, where is this mount information stored? I started out by deleting any previous cygwin directory trees. Does cygwin use the windows registry to save previous configurations?
On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 18:39, Harold Hunt wrote: > 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? >
