Re: Full 1.7 Install -> "Insufficient disk space to repair security descriptor at index $SII for file 9"

[Andy Koppe <andy dot koppe at gmail dot com>]

2009/7/8 Stephen M. Kenton:
> Something very strange is going on. It happened on the second system also. I
> did a full Cygwin 1.7 install on the HP Media Center PC running Windows XP
> Media Center Edition at the lab and got the same results. After the install
> I pulled up a console and did a uname -a to make sure what version was
> installed. Then I rebooted and the system came back up fine. Then I
> scheduled the chkdisk and rebooted so it could run, and there it was, bad
> index $SII and $SDH on file 9 again, after which the system gets to the
> windows startup screen and then returns to POST. So it seems likely that the
> chkdisk is what is eating the system after the large amount of data from a
> full Cygwin 1.7 install probably tickles some bug in the Windows/NTFS code.
> As I recall, this system had the original 250GB NTFS partition resized with
> Gparted and then Ubuntu was installed in the free space thus created.
> Recently the Ubuntu install was overwritten by Fedora Core 11 before I got
> the system. When I booted up Windows it immediately started downloading lots
> of patches and I made sure it was fully patched to SP3 with every thing
> Windows Update wanted before I did the Cygwin 1.7 install. Maybe some very
> recent update from Microsoft is responsible. This box also has a restore
> partition so I went though the magic F10 sequence for this box to reload
> windows and can do more testing if it is deemed useful. If I'm the only once
> seeing this then it probably has something to do with resizing or moving
> NTFS which might be worth a warning note somewhere. I will speculate that
> Cygwin has been getting bigger as packages are added and maybe it recently
> went over some threshold of size when everything is installed at once by
> clicking the top "Default->Install" line of the installer window. I'll try
> the incremental install workaround and see if it avoids the problem.

Please make some use of the return key; this is really difficult to read.

Andy

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