From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10183 invoked by alias); 12 Oct 2015 23:49:24 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 10168 invoked by uid 89); 12 Oct 2015 23:49:23 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 23:49:22 +0000 Received: from int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.23]) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 62FF591FD7 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 23:49:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from YAAKOV04.redhat.com (ovpn-116-30.rdu2.redhat.com [10.10.116.30]) by int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id t9CNnJUS003625 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 12 Oct 2015 19:49:20 -0400 Message-ID: <1444693763.3808.27.camel@cygwin.com> Subject: Re: Cygwin/X installation: Unable to extract /etc/X11/fontpath.d/xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi:unscaled:pri=20 From: Yaakov Selkowitz To: cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 23:49:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <561465AE.1080700@cornell.edu> References: <5613FCEB.30603@cornell.edu> <56140E93.6060109@dronecode.org.uk> <561465AE.1080700@cornell.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-10/txt/msg00140.txt.bz2 On Tue, 2015-10-06 at 20:22 -0400, Ken Brown wrote: > On 10/6/2015 7:40 PM, Michael Enright wrote: > > Good old setup_x86 fortuitously gave me the chance to see an error > > message involving one of these symlinks. I reviewed the setup log and > > read that apparently such a symlink was created as follows: > > io_stream:mklink > > (cygfile:///etc/X11/fontpath.d/xorg-x11-75dpi:unscaled:pri=20 -> > > cygfile:///usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi) > > But there is no /etc/X11/fontpath.d directory on the system. > > > > The man page doesn't say in explicit procedural terms what the end > > user has to do to make fontpath.d exist and it doesn't seem to get > > created by setup. > > That's because of the setup bug that I mentioned in > https://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-10/msg00065.html; the directory > will get created by setup once the fixed version of setup is released. This should be fixed by setup 2.872, released today. -- Yaakov -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple