Re: Recent Cygwin problems

[Gary Johnson <garyjohn at spocom dot com>]

On 2013-06-21, Gary Johnson wrote:
> I've had Cygwin installed on this computer for over two years
> without any problems but recently I've started seeing a few problems
> and my installation seems corrupted.
> 
> 1.  Starting several weeks ago, whenever I run setup.exe I get this
>     pop-up message part way through the process.
> 
>         Cygwin Setup - Running postinstall scripts
> 
>         Postinstall script errors
>             These do not necessarily mean that affected packages
>             will fail to function properly, but please check
>             /var/log/setup.log.full and report any problems.
> 
>         Package: Unknown package
>                  pango1.0.sh exit code 1
> 
>     The relevant lines from /var/log/setup.log.full (following a
>     reinstall of the mutt package) seem to be these at the end:
> 
>         2013/06/21 10:05:29 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/mutt.sh"
>         2013/06/21 10:05:30 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/pango1.0.sh"
>         /etc/postinstall/pango1.0.sh: line 1: /etc/pango/pango.modules: No such file or directory
>         2013/06/21 10:05:30 abnormal exit: exit code=1
>         2013/06/21 10:05:30 Changing gid to Administrators
>         2013/06/21 10:07:23 note: Installation Complete
>         2013/06/21 10:07:23 Ending cygwin install

I looked further into this one and figured it out.  Line 1 of
/etc/postinstall/pango1.0.sh is

    /usr/bin/pango-querymodules > /etc/pango/pango.modules

but there was no /etc/pango directory.  That was apparently what the
message

    /etc/pango/pango.modules: No such file or directory

was trying to say.  I just created that directory and now
installations from setup.exe complete without that pop-up message.

Regards,
Gary


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