The mount information is pretty much the only information that Cygwin stores in the registry, and unfortunately it is not cleared when you uninstall Cygwin/XFree86. At least, I don't recall that it is cleared. I will probably add something about this to the FAQ, eventually.
Harold
Chris plonski wrote:
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-----
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[mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@;cygwin.com]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?
