Re: Stuck trying to reinstall Emacs 23.0.92 and setup dying each time

[Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>]

On 7/1/2009 5:31 PM, KARR, DAVID (ATTCINW) wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On
> > Behalf Of Ken Brown
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 1:42 PM
> > To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> > Subject: Re: Stuck trying to reinstall Emacs 23.0.92 and setup dying
> > each time
> >
> > On 7/1/2009 12:20 PM, KARR, DAVID (ATTCINW) wrote:
> > > I had set up Cygwin yesterday with the experimental Emacs 23.0.92.
> I
> > > had done other updates after that, forgetting the fact that since
> I'm
> > > using an experimental package, I have to set the Emacs-related pages
> > to
> > > "Keep".  I'm now in a state where I have the 23.0.92 executable, but
> > > with /usr/share/emacs/21.2.  So, now I'm trying to run setup again
> to
> > > reinstall 23.0.92, or uninstall it, or anything.  No matter what I
> > do,
> > > setup dies hard, requiring a forced kill from task manager.
> > >
> > > What can I do to clean up from this situation?
> > Does http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2008-04/msg00065.html help?  The
> > bug discussed there was supposed to have been fixed
> > (http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2008-08/msg00128.html), but it
> > wouldn't
> > hurt to see if that's the problem.
>
> Hmm, well it's a little hard to tell.  It's clear it's not exactly the
> same thing, because my copy of "/etc/setup/cygrunsrv.lst.gz" isn't
> corrupted, it simply doesn't exist.

cygrunsrv happened to be the package that the poster of that message was 
having trouble with.  You should look at /etc/setup/emacs*.lst.gz.

Ken

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