On Jul 23 03:27, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > On 2013-07-23 02:21, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Jul 22 23:40, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > >>On 2013-07-22 19:52, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: > >>>Postinstall errors: > >> > >>Thanks for the feedback; remarks inline. > >> > >>>Package: bash > >>> bash.sh exit code 1 > >> > >>I think the problem is that virtual /dev is a read-only filesystem, > >>but if you make a real /dev directory; then you can write to it. > >>Could you run 'mkdir -p /dev' (without the quotes) and then try > >>rerunning setup-x86_64.exe? I suspect this will work then. > > > >The base-cygwin script usually creates the /dev dir. Do we have > >a dependency loop which let bash.sh run before base-cygwin? > > The only package that depends on base-cygwin is cygwin itself, and > neither depend on bash.
A deps loop could screw this up. What does the full setup log say to the deps order? Maybe that gives us a hint... > >>>Package: a2ps > >>> a2ps.sh exit code 2 > >> > >>This is due to a missing papersize(5) file. I'm working on a fix, > >>but a workaround is to run the following command, then rerun > >>setup-x86_64.exe: > >> > >>echo letter > /etc/papersize > > > >I'd prefer `echo a4 > /etc/papersize' ;) > > I suppose you would. :-) Any idea how to provide a sane default > that most people on both sides of the pond would be happy with? We don't support LC_PAPER so we also don't have this information in some DB. Just use letter and let us europeans with their weird paper formats handle this manually. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
