Igor wrote: > The XFree86-bin-icons package is buggy. It's basically a postinstall > script that tries to create icons for the X programs that are installed on > your machine. The problem is that it tries to create them in the Start > Menu for "All Users" without checking whether the current user can write > to it. I'm not quite sure why it hangs for you, but you can try running > that script manually via "bash -x" and seeing where it hangs. If you do > investigate, please post your findings to the cygwin-xfree list.
I had the same problem, but when I ran the script manually, it worked without complaint. I just now tried to upgrade to the latest released packages, including the upgrade to XFree86-bin-icons 4.3.0-4 from 4.3.0-3. The *uninstall* process hung. When I ran the script manually, it said: rmdir: removing directory, /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/All Users/Start Menu/Programs/Cygwin-XFree86/Editors rmdir: removing directory, /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/All Users/Start Menu/Programs/Cygwin-XFree86/Games rmdir: removing directory, /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/All Users/Start Menu/Programs/Cygwin-XFree86/Information rmdir: removing directory, /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/All Users/Start Menu/Programs/Cygwin-XFree86/Tools rmdir: removing directory, /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/All Users/Start Menu/Programs/Cygwin-XFree86/Toys rmdir: removing directory, /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/All Users/Start Menu/Programs/Cygwin-XFree86 rmdir: `/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/All Users/Start Menu/Programs/Cygwin-XFree86': Permission denied rmdir: removing directory, /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/All Users/Start Menu/Programs/Cygwin-XFree86 And then it exited, so I'm guessing it was Setup (version 2.415) itself that hung. The bit about permission denied is nonsense, since I am logged in as Administrator. What is true is that that directory was not empty, since many X packages did not need upgrading at that time. However, I have no idea if that had anything to do with the hang. This is on a Windows XP Pro box. HTH. Regards, -- Jerry James http://www.ittc.ku.edu/~james/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
