Re: cygutils Postinstall Script Errors With Exit Code 128

[Paul.Nickerson@desknetinc.com]

cygwin-owner at cygwin dot com wrote on 05/29/2013 11:47:20 AM:

> From: Reini Urban <rurban at x-ray dot at>
> To: The Cygwin Mailing List <cygwin at cygwin dot com>, Charles Wilson 
> <cygwin at cwilson dot fastmail dot fm>, 
> Date: 05/29/2013 11:47 AM
> Subject: Re: cygutils Postinstall Script Errors With Exit Code 128
> Sent by: cygwin-owner at cygwin dot com
> 
> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 2:43 Paul.Nickerson wrote:
<snip>
> > Package: cygutils
> >         cygutils.sh exit code 127
> > Package: man
> >         man.sh exit code 128
> 
> I got the cygutils postinstall error also, caused by missing 
dependencies.
> 
> $ cat /etc/postinstall/cygutils.sh
> /usr/bin/update-desktop-database
> /usr/bin/update-mime-database /usr/share/mime
> 
> both scripts do not exist, and are no cygutils reqs.
> please test against it.
> like:
> test -f /usr/bin/update-desktop-database && 
/usr/bin/update-desktop-database
> test -f /usr/bin/update-mime-database && /usr/bin/update-mime-database
> /usr/share/mime
<snip>
> --
> Reini Urban
> http://cpanel.net/   http://www.perl-compiler.org/

Those update-* files do not exist for me either. However, I think my 
problems are starting before cygutils.sh returns with exit code 127.
Are you asking me to test that the files exist before I run them? Or, are 
you asking the Cygwin maintainers to have their cygutils script do so?

 ~ Paul

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