Cygwin/X installation: Unable to extract /etc/X11/fontpath.d/xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi:unscaled:pri=20

Cygwin/X installation: Unable to extract /etc/X11/fontpath.d/xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi:unscaled:pri=20

[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.

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Re: Cygwin/X installation: Unable to extract /etc/X11/fontpath.d/xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi:unscaled:pri=20

[Andrey Repin]

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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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

[Ken Brown]

On 10/6/2015 10:59 AM, Andrey Repin wrote:
> 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.

No, Cygwin has a special way of handling colons in file names, so that 
Windows doesn't see them as colons:

 
https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-specialchars

Ken


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Re: Cygwin/X installation: Unable to extract /etc/X11/fontpath.d/xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi:unscaled:pri=20

[Ken Brown]

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

[kuaf]

Sorry for the duplication.

thank you, Andrey Repin and Ken.

2015-10-06 23:06 GMT+08:00 Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>:
> 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

[Michael Enright]

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

[Ken Brown]

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

[Jon Turney]

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

[Michael Enright]

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

[Andrey Repin]

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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Wednesday, October 7, 2015 02:49:51

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

[Ken Brown]

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

[Yaakov Selkowitz]

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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