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1.7 constantly accesses floppy drive
- From: "Lee Maschmeyer" <lee_maschmeyer at wayne dot edu>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:47:29 -0400
- Subject: 1.7 constantly accesses floppy drive
Hi folks,
Following instructions on the list a couple days ago I installed Cygwin 1.7
on top of my fully updated 1.5 system by running:
http://www.cygwin.com/setup-1.7.exe
Since then performance has been abysmal. The reason is that for every
command I execute, Cygwin causes the floppy drive to whir around, usually
for at least a half minute, almost without cessation. Nothing gets done
until this whirring stops.
This is on Windows XP SP3, fully updated. Cygwin is also fully updated. I
always install/update everything whenever I run Setup. My /var/log/setup.log
has entries going back to 2004 so there are probably a few barnacles on this
system.
Cygcheck output is attached. I just noticed that according to the path it's
looking for Windows on a: but it is, of course, on c:. I have no idea how
this happened or, short of massaging PATH every time I start Cygwin, what to
do about it.
I hope this helps,
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Lee Maschmeyer
Computing Center Services
Computing and Information Technology
Wayne State University
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Attachment:
1.7-log.txt
Description: Text document
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