Hi This is from the setup run after updating to the latest ghostscript package:
2008/04/13 22:27:51 Running preremove script for ghostscript 2008/04/13 22:27:51 running: D:\\bin\bash.exe -c /etc/preremove/ghostscript.sh 2008/04/13 22:27:51 Running preremove script for ghostscript-base 2008/04/13 22:27:51 Running preremove script for ghostscript-x11 2008/04/13 22:27:51 running: D:\\bin\bash.exe -c /etc/preremove/ghostscript-x11.sh path to alternate expected in /var/lib/alternatives/gs 2008/04/13 22:27:51 abnormal exit: exit code=2 2008/04/13 22:27:51 Running preremove script for _update-info-dir 2008/04/13 22:27:51 Uninstalling ghostscript unlink D:\/bin//gs-native.exe 2008/04/13 22:27:51 Uninstalling ghostscript-base unlink D:\/bin//bdftops : : 2008/04/13 22:28:00 zsync 2008/04/13 22:28:00 running: D:\\bin\bash.exe -c /etc/postinstall/update-info-dir.sh 2008/04/13 22:28:14 running: D:\\bin\bash.exe -c /etc/postinstall/ghostscript.sh path to alternate expected in /var/lib/alternatives/gs 2008/04/13 22:28:14 abnormal exit: exit code=2 2008/04/13 22:28:14 running: D:\\bin\bash.exe -c /etc/postinstall/ghostscript-x11.sh path to alternate expected in /var/lib/alternatives/gs 2008/04/13 22:28:14 abnormal exit: exit code=2 2008/04/13 22:28:20 note: Installation Complete 2008/04/13 22:28:20 Ending cygwin install What does this path to alternate expected in /var/lib/alternatives/gs mean ? I can't even do the following anymore > alternatives --display gs > path to alternate expected in /var/lib/alternatives/gs These are the two postinstall sripts for the native and the x11 version of ghostscript: ------------------------------ ghostscript.sh --------------------------------- #!/bin/sh prefix=/usr bindir=${prefix}/bin sbindir=${prefix}/sbin ${sbindir}/update-alternatives --install ${bindir}/gs gs ${bindir}/gs-native 10 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ ghostscript-x11.sh ----------------------------- #!/bin/sh prefix=/usr bindir=${prefix}/bin sbindir=${prefix}/sbin ${sbindir}/update-alternatives --install ${bindir}/gs gs ${bindir}/gs-x11 20 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- And these are the preremove scripts: ------------------------------ ghostscript.sh --------------------------------- #!/bin/sh prefix=/usr bindir=${prefix}/bin sbindir=${prefix}/sbin ${sbindir}/update-alternatives --remove gs ${bindir}/gs-native ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ ghostscript-x11.sh ----------------------------- #!/bin/sh prefix=/usr bindir=${prefix}/bin sbindir=${prefix}/sbin ${sbindir}/update-alternatives --remove gs ${bindir}/gs-x11 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- When I remove /var/lib/alternatives/gs and start from scratch I get: 12:09 AM [499]> rm /var/lib/alternatives/gs [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp 12:09 AM [500]> update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gs gs /usr/bin/gs-x11 20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp 12:10 AM [501]> update-alternatives --display gs path to alternate expected in /var/lib/alternatives/gs [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp 12:10 AM [502]> cat /var/lib/alternatives/gs auto /usr/bin/gs /usr/bin/gs-x11 20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp 12:11 AM [505]> ls -lt /usr/bin/gs /etc/alternatives/gs /usr/bin/gs-x11* lrwxrwxrwx 1 vzell admin 15 Apr 15 00:10 /etc/alternatives/gs -> /usr/bin/gs-x11* lrwxrwxrwx 1 vzell admin 20 Apr 14 09:11 /usr/bin/gs -> /etc/alternatives/gs* -rwxr-xr-x 1 vzell users 11212800 Apr 13 17:29 /usr/bin/gs-x11.exe* [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp I also found the following in the archives: o http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-11/msg00304.html On my machine I get: alternatives --display unison path to alternate expected in /var/lib/alternatives/unison Hmmmmmmmm... Ciao Volker -- 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/