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

[noone <moone at shemesh dot org>]

I am just a lurker, but...
I have had this occur to me in a Windows application when trying to save 
 a file to a directory that does not exists, the application creates a 
file with the directory name and then (big suprise) cannot create a file 
inside it. Perhaps there is a script that does not check that the 
app-defaults directory exists before creating Bitmap in it, thereby 
creating app-defaults as a file?
Matti

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 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.
>
>
> Was there ever any resolution about this?  It was a strange error and it
> would have been nice to track it down.
>
> cgf