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From: "Bradley, Mike" <mike_bradley@mentor.com>
To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: startxwin/XWin won't start properly
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:36:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <11B1CA4A4D6D674AAC2CCD65E7AC7A8902361899@na2-mail.mgc.mentorg.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100630141036.GA20060@ednor.casa.cgf.cx>


> So, after being told that Cygwin remembers your previous installation
> and to just run setup.exe, you removed your previous installation and
> are surprised that Cygwin doesn't remember it.

What I did was re-run setup.exe.  XWin would still not startup.  Then I
Deleted the cygwin install (except for the package directory).
Setup.exe
Did not recall/remember/read the package directory, it did a default
install.

The good news is XWin works now.  The bad news is I must
remember/find/set the
Various packages I need in addition to the default.

I'm confused as to why the notion of setup.exe to leave a
bread-crumb-trail of
what was installed for-the-purpose-of driving a subsequent installation
is such 
a controversial issue....

> Here's some more advice for you to misunderstand/ignore:  Don't do
that.

Uh, I think we have a simple misunderstanding...


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-06-30 14:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-29 14:50 Bradley, Mike
2010-06-29 14:55 ` Markus Hoenicka
2010-06-29 15:23   ` Bradley, Mike
2010-06-29 15:44     ` Markus Hoenicka
2010-06-29 15:48       ` Bradley, Mike
2010-06-29 22:39 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
2010-06-29 22:56   ` Bradley, Mike
2010-06-30  1:49     ` Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
2010-06-30  5:07       ` Bradley, Mike
     [not found]         ` <4C2AD3D0.60707@cygwin.com>
2010-06-30 14:02           ` Timares, Brian (Harris)
2010-06-30 14:12             ` Bradley, Mike
     [not found]             ` <20100630141511.GB20060@ednor.casa.cgf.cx>
2010-06-30 14:20               ` Tim Prince
2010-06-30 15:23               ` Timares, Brian (Harris)
2010-06-30 15:52                 ` Setup retaining or saving package selections (was: startxwin/XWin won't start properly) Timares, Brian (Harris)
2010-06-30 18:18                   ` Christopher Faylor
2010-06-30 16:12                 ` RE: startxwin/XWin won't start properly Ryan Johnson
2010-06-30 18:01                   ` Christopher Faylor
2010-06-30 17:35                 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
     [not found]         ` <20100630141036.GA20060@ednor.casa.cgf.cx>
2010-06-30 14:36           ` Bradley, Mike [this message]
2010-06-30 14:43             ` Christopher Faylor

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