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Subject: RE: Stuck trying to reinstall Emacs 23.0.92 and setup dying each    time
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 17:04:20 -0700
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From: "KARR, DAVID (ATTCINW)" <dk068x AT att DOT com>
To: "Ken Brown" <kbrown AT cornell DOT edu>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com] On
> Behalf Of Ken Brown
> Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 4:58 PM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: Stuck trying to reinstall Emacs 23.0.92 and setup dying
> each time
>=20
> On 7/1/2009 6:37 PM, KARR, DAVID (ATTCINW) wrote:
> > Ok, so that shows that emacs-el.lst.gz was corrupted.  I deleted it,
> > then reran setup. I clicked "Exp", then "View", then scrolled down
to
> > the three "emacs*" lines and set them all to "Reinstall" (the
> "Current"
> > column says "23.0.92-2") and clicked "Next".  It chugged for a bit,
> last
> > displaying "Uninstalling emacs-el", then reported "setup.exe has
> > encountered ...".  After dismissing the dialog, I looked at
> /etc/setup
> > again, and the corrupted "emacs-el.lst.gz" was there again.  I also
> > checked to see whether any other "*.lst.gz" files were corrupted,
and
> > there were none.
>=20
> One other thought:  You don't actually need emacs-el.  This just
> provides source files for the emacs libraries, and you can always get
> them from the emacs source if you find you need them later.  Can you
> reinstall emacs and emacs-X11 and just "keep" emacs-el?

HA!  That did it.  Quite weird.  It sounds to me like there's something
about "emacs-el" that is corrupted at the source, rather than some
problem in setup.exe.

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