On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 10:40:03AM +0100, Alexander Gottwald wrote: >On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, Greg Schussman wrote: >>I've just tried to do a full install of cygwin/X on Windows XP. The >>install hangs at 90%, saying: >> >>Installing >> >>xorgx-x11-etc-6.8.180.1 >> >>/etc/X11/app-defaults/Bitmap >> >> >>When I look at the file structure, etc/X11/app-defaults is a file, not >>a directory. Perhaps this is the problem (how can one write to >>app-defaults/Bitmap if app-defaults is not a directory)? > >This is really strange. Did you have anything from cygwin installed >before? I could not find any cygwin package which does not create >/etc/X11/app-defaults as file instead of a directory.
Was there ever any resolution about this? It was a strange error and it would have been nice to track it down. cgf