* Cygwin/X installation: Unable to extract /etc/X11/fontpath.d/xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi:unscaled:pri=20
@ 2015-10-06 14:42 kuaf
2015-10-06 15:05 ` Andrey Repin
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From: kuaf @ 2015-10-06 14:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
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
The file is in use or some other error occurred.
...
I have no idea about the errors.
Be puzzled that there's no existing directory of /etc/X11/fontpath.d.
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* Re: Cygwin/X installation: Unable to extract /etc/X11/fontpath.d/xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi:unscaled:pri=20
2015-10-06 14:42 Cygwin/X installation: Unable to extract /etc/X11/fontpath.d/xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi:unscaled:pri=20 kuaf
@ 2015-10-06 15:05 ` Andrey Repin
2015-10-06 15:26 ` Ken Brown
2015-10-06 15:06 ` Ken Brown
2015-10-06 16:43 ` Michael Enright
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From: Andrey Repin @ 2015-10-06 15:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: kuaf, cygwin
Greetings, kuaf!
> 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
> The file is in use or some other error occurred.
> ...
> I have no idea about the errors.
> Be puzzled that there's no existing directory of /etc/X11/fontpath.d.
Try creating that directory and creating a random file in it.
I'm more puzzled by the file name, though. While colons are allowed in Windows
file names, they bear special meaning of referencing streams within a file.
And they can't be nested.
And Cygwin seems to be blissfully unaware of their existence.
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Tuesday, October 6, 2015 17:56:31
Sorry for my terrible english...
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* Re: Cygwin/X installation: Unable to extract /etc/X11/fontpath.d/xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi:unscaled:pri=20
2015-10-06 14:42 Cygwin/X installation: Unable to extract /etc/X11/fontpath.d/xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi:unscaled:pri=20 kuaf
2015-10-06 15:05 ` Andrey Repin
@ 2015-10-06 15:06 ` Ken Brown
2015-10-06 16:12 ` kuaf
2015-10-06 16:43 ` Michael Enright
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From: Ken Brown @ 2015-10-06 15:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
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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* Re: Cygwin/X installation: Unable to extract /etc/X11/fontpath.d/xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi:unscaled:pri=20
2015-10-06 14:42 Cygwin/X installation: Unable to extract /etc/X11/fontpath.d/xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi:unscaled:pri=20 kuaf
2015-10-06 15:05 ` Andrey Repin
2015-10-06 15:06 ` Ken Brown
@ 2015-10-06 16:43 ` Michael Enright
2015-10-06 16:55 ` Ken Brown
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From: Michael Enright @ 2015-10-06 16:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 7:42 AM, kuaf wrote:
> Unable to extract
> /etc/X11/fontpath.d/xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi:unscaled:pri=20
Something tells me that this error message is not only giving a file
name, it is giving some font parameters that had been specified
directly or indirectly by the application. The colons divide the
string into parameters and the first one is a file or directory.
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* Re: Cygwin/X installation: Unable to extract /etc/X11/fontpath.d/xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi:unscaled:pri=20
2015-10-06 16:43 ` Michael Enright
@ 2015-10-06 16:55 ` Ken Brown
2015-10-06 18:10 ` Jon Turney
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From: Ken Brown @ 2015-10-06 16:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
On 10/6/2015 12:43 PM, Michael Enright wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 7:42 AM, kuaf wrote:
>> Unable to extract
>> /etc/X11/fontpath.d/xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi:unscaled:pri=20
>
> Something tells me that this error message is not only giving a file
> name, it is giving some font parameters that had been specified
> directly or indirectly by the application. The colons divide the
> string into parameters and the first one is a file or directory.
No, it's a file name. See my earlier replies in this thread.
Ken
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* Re: Cygwin/X installation: Unable to extract /etc/X11/fontpath.d/xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi:unscaled:pri=20
2015-10-06 16:55 ` Ken Brown
@ 2015-10-06 18:10 ` Jon Turney
2015-10-06 23:40 ` Michael Enright
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From: Jon Turney @ 2015-10-06 18:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin; +Cc: mike
On 06/10/2015 17:55, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 10/6/2015 12:43 PM, Michael Enright wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 7:42 AM, kuaf wrote:
>>> Unable to extract
>>> /etc/X11/fontpath.d/xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi:unscaled:pri=20
>>
>> Something tells me that this error message is not only giving a file
>> name, it is giving some font parameters that had been specified
>> directly or indirectly by the application. The colons divide the
>> string into parameters and the first one is a file or directory.
>
> No, it's a file name. See my earlier replies in this thread.
It is a filename.
It has certain attributes about how the X server should use that
fontpath element encoded into the symlink filename.
But there is no need to guess about this, it's documented in the
fontpath.d section of the Xserver man page [1]
[1] http://x.cygwin.com/docs/man1/Xserver.1.html#lbAN
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* Re: Cygwin/X installation: Unable to extract /etc/X11/fontpath.d/xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi:unscaled:pri=20
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
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From: Michael Enright @ 2015-10-06 23:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jon Turney; +Cc: cygwin
On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Jon Turney wrote:
>
> But there is no need to guess about this, it's documented in the fontpath.d
> section of the Xserver man page [1]
>
> [1] http://x.cygwin.com/docs/man1/Xserver.1.html#lbAN
>
I still have questions.
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. There are three occurances of fontpath.d on that
page and none of them say where you should put it.
Could we change it to be more tutorial, something like:
If you wanted to modify the priority of the bitmap fonts for example,
you could go to /etc/X11 and create fontpath.d and then here are some
ln commands:
ln -s /usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi xorg-x11-75dpi:unscaled:pri=20
...
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* Re: Cygwin/X installation: Unable to extract /etc/X11/fontpath.d/xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi:unscaled:pri=20
2015-10-06 23:40 ` Michael Enright
@ 2015-10-07 0:05 ` Andrey Repin
2015-10-07 0:22 ` Ken Brown
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From: Andrey Repin @ 2015-10-07 0:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Michael Enright, cygwin
Greetings, Michael Enright!
>> But there is no need to guess about this, it's documented in the fontpath.d
>> section of the Xserver man page [1]
>>
>> [1] http://x.cygwin.com/docs/man1/Xserver.1.html#lbAN
>>
> I still have questions.
> 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. There are three occurances of fontpath.d on that
> page and none of them say where you should put it.
> Could we change it to be more tutorial, something like:
> If you wanted to modify the priority of the bitmap fonts for example,
> you could go to /etc/X11 and create fontpath.d and then here are some
> ln commands:
> ln -s /usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi xorg-x11-75dpi:unscaled:pri=20
> ...
This should be taken care of by the setup itself.
Not by the end user.
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Sorry for my terrible english...
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* Re: Cygwin/X installation: Unable to extract /etc/X11/fontpath.d/xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi:unscaled:pri=20
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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From: Ken Brown @ 2015-10-07 0:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
On 10/6/2015 7:40 PM, Michael Enright wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Jon Turney wrote:
>>
>> But there is no need to guess about this, it's documented in the fontpath.d
>> section of the Xserver man page [1]
>>
>> [1] http://x.cygwin.com/docs/man1/Xserver.1.html#lbAN
>>
>
> I still have questions.
>
> 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.
Ken
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* Re: Cygwin/X installation: Unable to extract /etc/X11/fontpath.d/xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi:unscaled:pri=20
2015-10-07 0:22 ` Ken Brown
@ 2015-10-12 23:49 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
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From: Yaakov Selkowitz @ 2015-10-12 23:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
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.
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