From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
To: kuaf <kuaf.lee@gmail.com>, 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 15:05:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <821262354.20151006175954@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFLqW4O_tOf2Xw68gmajCa8NMNcPtQRiMa1vT6c7ETeVz5VP2g@mail.gmail.com>
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.
--
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Tuesday, October 6, 2015 17:56:31
Sorry for my terrible english...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-06 15:05 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 [this message]
2015-10-06 15:26 ` Ken Brown
2015-10-06 15:06 ` Ken Brown
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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