From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp-out-no.shaw.ca (smtp-out-no.shaw.ca [64.59.134.13]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 35B6F385702E for ; Tue, 8 Sep 2020 16:14:11 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 sourceware.org 35B6F385702E Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=SystematicSw.ab.ca Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=brian.inglis@systematicsw.ab.ca Received: from [192.168.1.104] ([24.64.172.44]) by shaw.ca with ESMTP id FgG0kJmdRng7KFgG1khYUP; Tue, 08 Sep 2020 10:14:10 -0600 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.3 cv=ecemg4MH c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=kiZT5GMN3KAWqtYcXc+/4Q==:117 a=kiZT5GMN3KAWqtYcXc+/4Q==:17 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=w_pzkKWiAAAA:8 a=Ed7FdIT4gc43trk-okQA:9 a=rlRi44M78gB0swPA:21 a=kxoo1MZRRG4vkaFL:21 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 a=SMqUYNgkm0QA:10 a=sRI3_1zDfAgwuvI8zelB:22 Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: postinstall: fontconfig abnormal exit To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <106370283.20200908171659@yandex.ru> From: Brian Inglis Autocrypt: addr=Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca; prefer-encrypt=mutual; keydata= mDMEXopx8xYJKwYBBAHaRw8BAQdAnCK0qv/xwUCCZQoA9BHRYpstERrspfT0NkUWQVuoePa0 LkJyaWFuIEluZ2xpcyA8QnJpYW4uSW5nbGlzQFN5c3RlbWF0aWNTdy5hYi5jYT6IlgQTFggA PhYhBMM5/lbU970GBS2bZB62lxu92I8YBQJeinHzAhsDBQkJZgGABQsJCAcCBhUKCQgLAgQW AgMBAh4BAheAAAoJEB62lxu92I8Y0ioBAI8xrggNxziAVmr+Xm6nnyjoujMqWcq3oEhlYGAO WacZAQDFtdDx2koSVSoOmfaOyRTbIWSf9/Cjai29060fsmdsDLg4BF6KcfMSCisGAQQBl1UB BQEBB0Awv8kHI2PaEgViDqzbnoe8B9KMHoBZLS92HdC7ZPh8HQMBCAeIfgQYFggAJhYhBMM5 /lbU970GBS2bZB62lxu92I8YBQJeinHzAhsMBQkJZgGAAAoJEB62lxu92I8YZwUBAJw/74rF IyaSsGI7ewCdCy88Lce/kdwX7zGwid+f8NZ3AQC/ezTFFi5obXnyMxZJN464nPXiggtT9gN5 RSyTY8X+AQ== Organization: Systematic Software Message-ID: <29071b8b-f06c-a627-f9e7-c24e3bdcc21b@SystematicSw.ab.ca> Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2020 10:14:08 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.12.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-CA Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4wfE3S29TultT1DyH6dq4sLeu09PsKiZzT+MZ6H6UPWMmrMBtwxChbMP2ajdbtG6vX3K5nnqrXpZzYVOtQ3bqUAI/bFf3aL3LD/atiQnZPehYwrUO4hKOu drzau4oKM9Tn0HpB/7nPptg49Z7JF3sGjZH/2a6znwMf/gRbU9fDdMHngyiWRuWdGRkd3hz6kASpRA== X-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, KAM_DMARC_STATUS, KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY, NICE_REPLY_A, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW, SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_NONE, TXREP autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: General Cygwin discussions and problem reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2020 16:14:12 -0000 On 2020-09-08 09:18, Fergus Daly via Cygwin wrote: >> Greetings, Fergus Daly! > >>> Sorry if this has been asked 4 million times already. >>> During postinstall, both at ground-zero installation and at every update >>> thereafter, and for both Cygwin-32 and -64, >>> (both using the appropriate setup-x86[_64].exe) I get: >>> running: {pathToCygwin}\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/fontconfig_dtd.sh" >>> abnormal exit: exit code=2 >>> Is there something that can be done to address this "error", if that is >>> what it is, or is it just a quirk of setup? > >> Run the same command manually and see where it's failing. >> IIRC (as this has been raised before), the problem is that a certain >> file/directory not exists. >> Check the mailing list archive? > > Thank you for this advice. > > 1 > For a long time (years) I have included an empty file > /etc/X11/fontpath.d/thisisafile > in my architecture as a workaround to address some installation problem, > the nature of which I have completely forgotten. > Having incorporated this dummy file, I should then re-install some package, > but precisely which one I have regrettably also forgotten. > > 2 > This kind suggestion came from Ken Brown. By a strange coincidence, less than a week ago, > https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2020-September/246128.html, > I lamented the lack of ease with which one may search this archive. I just searched in a limited way > to try to discover the problem for which Ken's workaround provided the cure, but without success. > > 3 > I also just now added "fontconfig" to my setup using "setup -P fontconfig" and then also ran the command > fc-cache -v > at the bash prompt, and whilst achieving a raft of checks, this has not addressed the original postinstall error > message. > I did not really think it would, guessing that if the fontconfig package were to successfully address such a > basic (and recurrent) fault, then it would necessarily have been included in Base. > > So: nil progress, but thank you for your suggestion. $ cygcheck -f /etc/postinstall/fontconfig_dtd.sh libfontconfig-common-2.13.1-1 $ cygcheck -f /usr/bin/xmlcatalog libxml2-2.9.10-1 $ cygcheck -f /usr/share/xml/fontconfig/fonts.dtd libfontconfig-common-2.13.1-1 $ head /etc/postinstall/{fontconfig_dtd,libxml2}.* ==> /etc/postinstall/fontconfig_dtd.sh.done <== if [ -x /usr/bin/xmlcatalog ] ; then /usr/bin/xmlcatalog --noout --add "system" "fonts.dtd" /usr/share/xml/fontconfig/fonts.dtd /etc/xml/catalog fi ==> /etc/postinstall/libxml2.sh.done <== if test ! -f /etc/xml/catalog; then /bin/mkdir -p /etc/xml /usr/bin/xmlcatalog --noout --create /etc/xml/catalog fi $ llgo /{etc/xml/,usr/bin/xml}catalog /usr/share/xml/fontconfig/fonts.dtd /etc/postinstall/{fontconfig_dtd,libxml2}.* -rw-r--r-- 1 152 Jul 28 2019 /etc/postinstall/fontconfig_dtd.sh.done -rw-r--r-- 1 118 Mar 25 2019 /etc/postinstall/libxml2.sh.done -rw-r--r-- 1 1.2K Jul 30 2019 /etc/xml/catalog -rwxr-xr-x 1 18K Aug 15 10:35 /usr/bin/xmlcatalog* -rw-r--r-- 1 7.1K Jul 28 2019 /usr/share/xml/fontconfig/fonts.dtd So check the existence of all the files and all the postinstall scripts, re-execute the latter if necessary, re-install packages if necessary to make repairs, and ensure the postinstall scripts are renamed with .done appended when successfully completed. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised. [Data in IEC units and prefixes, physical quantities in SI.]