How to detect a broken Cygwin mirror?

[Larry Hall]

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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