Re: Unable to install X on 64-bit Windows 7 Premium

[Bob Kline <bkline at rksystems dot com>]

On 8/10/2010 11:49 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote:
> and since all xinit.sh does is run mkshortcut to create a start menu 
> shortcut, I'd guess this is the same issue as [1], assuming we don't 
> have a cygutils release with that fixed yet.
>
> [1] http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2010-03/msg00357.html

Right.  As for the third problem (with libglade), the error output is

add command failed
could not open /etc/xml/catalog for saving

Took a peek and saw that /etc/xml had not been created.  So I created 
the directory and ran libglade2.0.sh again, reduced the error output to 
simply

add command failed

and when I checked for /etc/xml/catalog is saw that it had been created, 
but that it was empty.  So I did some more googling, and found [1].  By 
adding --create to the script (and first removing the empty 
/etc/xml/catalog file) I was able to get the script to succeed.  
Unsettling that the libglade problem still hasn't been fixed after 
almost a couple of years, but at least I have (I think) "fixed" all 
three of the problems reported by the installer.

As for the theories about the differences in results between Jim 
Reisert's Win 7 Pro machine and my Win 7 Premium box: I did the rest of 
my experimenting on a Win 7 Enterprise virtual machine, and ran into the 
same problems as on Win 7 Premium.  So I'm pretty confident the 
different flavors of Win 7 had nothing to do with it.  Much more likely 
that setup ran into the same failures (silently) on Win 7 Pro because 
the installation was done before setup was reporting the postinstall 
script failures.  I would guess that the new practice of putting up the 
dialog window telling the new Cygwin user that his new installation will 
not work correctly until he fixes all of the errors which occurred will 
result in a decreased number of new users who are brave enough to 
persevere with Cygwin, but an increase in the number of problems which 
are actually reported and (let's hope) fixed.  On balance, at least in 
the long run, a worthy trade-off.

Thanks again for your assistance.

[1] http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2008-October.txt

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