I have had this occur to me in a Windows application when trying to save a file to a directory that does not exists, the application creates a file with the directory name and then (big suprise) cannot create a file inside it. Perhaps there is a script that does not check that the app-defaults directory exists before creating Bitmap in it, thereby creating app-defaults as a file?
Matti
Christopher Faylor wrote:
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
