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

[Stephen M. Kenton]

This seems to be a repeatable problem so I'm reporting it FYI

I have a dual boot Linux/Windows XP Pro box which normally runs Linux, 
but the wireless card died and it turns out my replacement card does not 
really work with Linux so I booted into Windows which did work with card 
so I could get on-line to chase down the driver problem.

While I was there I decided to try Cygwin 1.7 and I did a new install of 
everything. Shortly after it finished installing I got a strange return 
from a "find" command so I scheduled a scan disk and rebooted so it 
could run. There were 20GB free on disk, but I got a couple of messages 
(paraphrased) about "Insufficient disk space to repair security 
descriptor at index $SII for file 9" and index "$SDH for file9".

I thought it might be unrelated to Cygwin 1.7 so I fired up the 
re-install partition and imaged Windows Pro back on to the disk and then 
let it patch itself up to SP3 and what-ever that Windows update wanted. 
Then I scheduled a scan disk and rebooted and observed that it ran 
cleanly. After which I reinstalled Open Office, FireFox and Thunderbird 
and repeated the scan disk which was again clean.

At that point I again did a Cygwin 1.7 full install of everything. to 
c:\cygwin with everything defaults using http from the kernel.org 
repository. I fired up an X terminal for a few seconds then closed it, 
shutdown X and scheduled a scandisk and rebooted. As far as I can tell 
it got exactly the same error messages down to the index and file 
numbers. Afterwards attempting to start Windows would crash and return 
to the Bios POST screen and repeat.

Not sure what to make of it, but if anyone has questions/suggestions I'm 
willing to help try and chase it down. In the mean time I have rebuilt 
and patched XP Pro etc. but not installed Cygwin 1.7 or 1.5 while I go 
back to working on the Linux driver issue.

Steve


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