From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 66540 invoked by alias); 6 Oct 2015 15:06:57 -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 66531 invoked by uid 89); 6 Oct 2015 15:06:56 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: limerock02.mail.cornell.edu Received: from limerock02.mail.cornell.edu (HELO limerock02.mail.cornell.edu) (128.84.13.242) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 06 Oct 2015 15:06:54 +0000 X-CornellRouted: This message has been Routed already. Received: from authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (granite4.serverfarm.cornell.edu [10.16.197.9]) by limerock02.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4_cu) with ESMTP id t96F6pF1007455 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 2015 11:06:52 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.5] (cpe-67-249-176-138.twcny.res.rr.com [67.249.176.138]) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id t96F6oYY009430 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 6 Oct 2015 11:06:51 -0400 Subject: Re: Cygwin/X installation: Unable to extract /etc/X11/fontpath.d/xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi:unscaled:pri=20 To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: From: Ken Brown Message-ID: <5613E38B.5040705@cornell.edu> Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2015 15:06:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-10/txt/msg00065.txt.bz2 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 -- 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