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Re: (Cygwin) Installation & Uninstallation issues
- From: Tim Dierks <tim at dierks dot org>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2003 22:36:02 -0400
- Subject: Re: (Cygwin) Installation & Uninstallation issues
- References: <6.0.0.21.2.20031005205714.04e847d8@127.0.0.1>
At 08:57 PM 10/5/2003, Tim Dierks wrote:
At 08:32 PM 10/5/2003, signa@birch.net wrote:
Did you try renaming the present install, and any relevant registry
entries, and
retry after that (to avoid bad blocks in filesystem or a munged NTFS
structure
that NTFS somehow hasn't gotten around to repairing?)
I've tried renaming C:\cygwin, rebooting, and attempting to delete the
directory while there is no 'current' cygwin installation. Searching the
registry for 'tabs' (the name of the leaf directory) finds no relevant
instances. A disk check for NTFS problems didn't help.
I did find the problem. At some point, something had changed the owner of
/ver/cron/tabs to "System". Resetting the ownership on the cygwin directory
and all children, then resetting the privileges on it and all children,
enabled me to delete it.
- Tim
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