From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Cygwin/X installation: Unable to extract /etc/X11/fontpath.d/xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi:unscaled:pri=20
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2015 15:06:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5613E38B.5040705@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFLqW4O_tOf2Xw68gmajCa8NMNcPtQRiMa1vT6c7ETeVz5VP2g@mail.gmail.com>
On 10/6/2015 10:42 AM, kuaf wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I intended to install Cygwin/X server. Select package `xinit` as a
> package (The dependence packages, such as xorg-server, will be
> installed as well ).
> I came across error prompts as following:
>
> Error writing file
>
> Unable to extract
> /etc/X11/fontpath.d/xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi:unscaled:pri=20
This is due to a bug in setup. See
https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-09/msg00209.html for a workaround
until a new setup is released. Alternatively, see
https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-09/msg00230.html for a link to my own
build of setup with the bug fixed.
Ken
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-06 15:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-06 14:42 kuaf
2015-10-06 15:05 ` Andrey Repin
2015-10-06 15:26 ` Ken Brown
2015-10-06 15:06 ` Ken Brown [this message]
2015-10-06 16:12 ` kuaf
2015-10-06 16:43 ` Michael Enright
2015-10-06 16:55 ` Ken Brown
2015-10-06 18:10 ` Jon Turney
2015-10-06 23:40 ` Michael Enright
2015-10-07 0:05 ` Andrey Repin
2015-10-07 0:22 ` Ken Brown
2015-10-12 23:49 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
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