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 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple