> -----Original Message----- > From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On > Behalf Of Ken Brown > Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 4:58 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: Stuck trying to reinstall Emacs 23.0.92 and setup dying > each time > > On 7/1/2009 6:37 PM, KARR, DAVID (ATTCINW) wrote: > > Ok, so that shows that emacs-el.lst.gz was corrupted. I deleted it, > > then reran setup. I clicked "Exp", then "View", then scrolled down to > > the three "emacs*" lines and set them all to "Reinstall" (the > "Current" > > column says "23.0.92-2") and clicked "Next". It chugged for a bit, > last > > displaying "Uninstalling emacs-el", then reported "setup.exe has > > encountered ...". After dismissing the dialog, I looked at > /etc/setup > > again, and the corrupted "emacs-el.lst.gz" was there again. I also > > checked to see whether any other "*.lst.gz" files were corrupted, and > > there were none. > > One other thought: You don't actually need emacs-el. This just > provides source files for the emacs libraries, and you can always get > them from the emacs source if you find you need them later. Can you > reinstall emacs and emacs-X11 and just "keep" emacs-el?
HA! That did it. Quite weird. It sounds to me like there's something about "emacs-el" that is corrupted at the source, rather than some problem in setup.exe. -- 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
