RE: Full install on XP hangs at /etc/X11/abb-defaults/Bitmap

["Lino Miguel Martins Tinoco" <lino-m-tinoco at telecom dot pt>]

I had a similar problem a few months ago and also resolved it by
installing first some basic packages and after the rest of the packages.

Before that, I tried to remove the file were install hanged but after
removing that, it hanged in other file (the next one, I think). I
repeated this process a several times times and as I removed the files,
the hang was always in the next file and the percentage of the installed
files grew. At some point, I've excluded enough files to complete the
installation

After, I uninstalled everything (didn't trusted that kind of
installation), selected some basic packages and installed them and after
that I selected the rest of the packages and installed them also.
Everything went OK.

Maybe the setup cannot process such an amount of files like the one on a
full installation at one time.

--Lino Tinoco


On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 10:40:03AM +0100, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
>On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, Greg Schussman wrote:
>>I've just tried to do a full install of cygwin/X on Windows XP.  The 
>>install hangs at 90%, saying:
>>
>>Installing
>>
>>xorgx-x11-etc-6.8.180.1
>>
>>/etc/X11/app-defaults/Bitmap
>>
>>
>>When I look at the file structure, etc/X11/app-defaults is a file, not

>>a directory.  Perhaps this is the problem (how can one write to 
>>app-defaults/Bitmap if app-defaults is not a directory)?
>
>This is really strange.  Did you have anything from cygwin installed 
>before?  I could not find any cygwin package which does not create 
>/etc/X11/app-defaults as file instead of a directory.