Problems with Cygwin symlinks on a TrueCrypt volume

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Dec 13 13:47, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:
> Corinna,
> 
> On Wed, 11 Dec 2013 14:53:33 +0100 you wrote:
> 
> > ...
> > I created a new snapshot with this patch.  Please give the latest
> > snapshot from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ a try and report back.
> 
> First  time  ever I installed a  Cygwin  snapshot ...  but  it installed
> cleanly.  More important, it solved  the current symlink problem and did
> not yet create new problems!  Thanks Corinna :-)

Thanks for the feedback.

> > Apart from that, there's a chance that this is a problem not related
> > to Cygwin's usage of a transaction on a TrueCrypt volume in the first
> > place.  Can you try the workaround from
> > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948252 and see if that fixes the issue
> > with the release Cygwin DLL 1.7.27?
> 
> Since according to the Cygwin FAQ this means re-installing Cygwin I have
> to  postpone this for a  few days but I will  test  this nonetheless and
> will report back to the list (now that the list has graceously agreed to
> accept my postings).  But  currently I prefer and  enjoy the new patched
> version :-)

You just have to put the released Cygwin 1.7.27 DLL back in place,
that's all.  I assume you copied it somewhere else for the time being?
Just copy it back into place and, if that was not the solution, copy the
snapshot DLL over again.


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Maintainer                 cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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