From: Fergus Daly <fergusd84@outlook.com>
To: "cygwin@cygwin.com" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Cc: Fergus Daly <fergusd84@outlook.com>,
Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>,
"kbrown@cornell.edu" <kbrown@cornell.edu>
Subject: RE: postinstall: fontconfig abnormal exit
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2020 15:18:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DB6PR03MB30139A2A8B7ABC69F6F4CEC2A4290@DB6PR03MB3013.eurprd03.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <106370283.20200908171659@yandex.ru>
> Greetings, Fergus Daly!
>> Sorry if this has been asked 4 million times already.
>> During postinstall, both at ground-zero installation and at every update
>> thereafter, and for both Cygwin-32 and -64,
>> (both using the appropriate setup-x86[_64].exe) I get:
>> running: {pathToCygwin}\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/fontconfig_dtd.sh"
>> abnormal exit: exit code=2
>> Is there something that can be done to address this "error", if that is
>> what it is, or is it just a quirk of setup?
> Run the same command manually and see where it's failing.
> IIRC (as this has been raised before), the problem is that a certain
> file/directory not exists.
> Check the mailing list archive?
Thank you for this advice.
1
For a long time (years) I have included an empty file
/etc/X11/fontpath.d/thisisafile
in my architecture as a workaround to address some installation problem,
the nature of which I have completely forgotten.
Having incorporated this dummy file, I should then re-install some package,
but precisely which one I have regrettably also forgotten.
2
This kind suggestion came from Ken Brown. By a strange coincidence, less than a week ago,
https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2020-September/246128.html,
I lamented the lack of ease with which one may search this archive. I just searched in a limited way
to try to discover the problem for which Ken's workaround provided the cure, but without success.
3
I also just now added "fontconfig" to my setup using "setup -P fontconfig" and then also ran the command
fc-cache -v
at the bash prompt, and whilst achieving a raft of checks, this has not addressed the original postinstall error
message.
I did not really think it would, guessing that if the fontconfig package were to successfully address such a
basic (and recurrent) fault, then it would necessarily have been included in Base.
So: nil progress, but thank you for your suggestion.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-08 15:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-08 6:43 Fergus Daly
2020-09-08 12:03 ` Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty
2020-09-08 14:16 ` Andrey Repin
2020-09-08 15:18 ` Fergus Daly [this message]
2020-09-08 16:14 ` Brian Inglis
2020-09-10 5:23 ` Fergus Daly
2020-09-10 5:35 ` Andrey Repin
2020-09-10 10:57 ` Fergus Daly
2020-09-10 14:40 ` Brian Inglis
2020-09-11 6:04 ` briand
2020-09-11 7:22 ` Fergus Daly
2020-09-11 8:32 ` Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty
2020-09-11 11:31 ` Marco Atzeri
2020-09-11 13:12 ` Ken Brown
2020-09-11 14:41 ` Marco Atzeri
2020-09-11 19:47 ` Ken Brown
2020-09-11 20:30 ` Achim Gratz
2020-09-11 21:13 ` Ken Brown
2020-09-12 5:18 ` Brian Inglis
2020-09-12 12:56 ` Ken Brown
2021-07-20 17:00 ` Brian Inglis
2021-07-21 19:26 ` Ken Brown
2021-07-23 3:37 ` Brian Inglis
2020-09-12 6:08 ` ASSI
2020-09-13 16:53 ` Ken Brown
2020-09-16 8:42 ` Fergus Daly
2020-09-12 18:16 ` Andrey Repin
2020-09-14 15:47 ` Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty
2020-09-11 13:18 ` Fergus Daly
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