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Re: How to detect a broken Cygwin mirror?
- From: Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: luke dot kendall at cisra dot canon dot com dot au, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 22:14:08 -0400
- Subject: Re: How to detect a broken Cygwin mirror?
- References: <20040903014127.6FBDC8454B@pessard.research.canon.com.au>
- Reply-to: Cygwin List <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
At 09:41 PM 9/2/2004, you wrote:
>They also say it's common for it to be very, very hard to remove
>C:\cygwin - unable to remove it, unable to take ownership, on occasion
>having to boot into safe mode to get rid of it (on the way to trying a
>fresh Cygwin install, you see).
Perhaps you're running one of Cygwin's service apps (sshd, crond, etc?)
and you didn't stop it before doing the remove?
Otherwise, this sounds like a simple permissions issue. If you're getting
files installed that indicate no permissions, you might want to try setting
'nontsec' in your CYGWIN environment variable prior to the install.
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