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On 3/14/2012 9:52 AM, Fergus wrote:
>>> /usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/urw/symbol: failed to write cache
>>> /usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/urw/times: failed to write cache
>>> /usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/urw/zapfchan: failed to write cache
>>> /usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/urw/zapfding: failed to write cache
>>> 2012/03/14 07:29:42 abnormal exit: exit code=146
>
>
>  > Those errors are coming from the calls to fc-cache in the new
> postinstall scripts.
>  > Do you have the latest version of fontconfig installed?
>
> Thank you for getting back so rapidly.
> Yes, fontconfig is installed (and therefore I assume latest version).
> There is a
> 03/02/2012 09:11 178,702 /bin/cygfontconfig-1.dll
> file There is also a /etc/postinstall/fontconfig.sh.done file.
>
> (a) Incidentally I originally installed texlive-collection over an
> obsolete tetex, which installation (a) took forever and (b) tailed off
> at the end with a fontconfig installation error that I reported at
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-03/msg00226.html.
>
> (b) So I then did what always seems to me to be the strategy of last
> resort: re-install brand new Cygwin from the ground up. Evidently
> successful - no error messages; presence of fontconfig.sh.done as
> stated; and until today's update of texlive-collection-*-20120312-1, no
> problems!
>
> (c) Just this minute I tried setup.exe again. Nothing new to install in
> the last 8 hours but setup still took 10 (no: nearer 20) minutes
> labouring over postinstall scripts (presumably taking a second crack at
> those it failed with previously? ... lacking the *.sh.done files?) and
> ended with a *similar but different* error announcement

My guess is still that it's a fontconfig issue.  I'm not an expert on 
that, but I would suggest that you try `fc-cache -fsv' (and capture the 
output).  If that runs without errors, then we'll have to look for 
something else in the postinstall scripts.

Ken


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