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Re: reinstallation problems
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Thanks,
Frank
http://lovenorthkorea.org/
http://kimplicity.com/fkim/blog/
http://betweengo.com/
On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 7:07 AM, Dave Korn
<dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Frank Kim wrote:
>
>> Becoming suspicious of my favorite download site,
>> mirrors.xmission.com, I decided I'd try a different site
>> mirror.cpsc.ucalgary.ca. ?Reinistalling with this site caused _no_
>> problems. ?I'm back up and running.
>>
>> Anyone know what could be wrong with the mirrors.xmission.com. ?I used
>> to always use it because it was the fastest.
>
> ?Mirrors are regularly checked by an automated script on cygwin.com and
> removed from the list if found not up-to-date or otherwise inaccurate; it was
> probably nothing to do with the mirror that caused your postinstall scripts to
> fail. ?(Maybe a side effect of the ipssvc bloda?)
>
> ? ?cheers,
> ? ? ?DaveK
>
It might have been a side effect. Not sure why ipssvc would cause an
installation problem but you never know. Also when I was installing
from xmission.com I noticed that openssh was missing and it was never
missing before.
Anyway I guess I'll try xmission.com again another time when I'm
feeling more courageous. :-)
Thanks,
Frank
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