Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/09/18/08:25:04
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, John Carlyle- Clarke wrote:
Please, ask about one problem at a time. Is setup which is
causing problems for you or some of the Cygwin packages ?
I was under the impression that you're having troubles installing Cygwin
due to a setup.exe misbehaving. Now I see that you've succeeded in
installing Cygwin. I am really puzzled right now.
> > > This problem seems to occur when the setup program tries to
> > > access a file for writing for which it does not have permission.
> >
> > Well, is there a chance you know also the name of the file. And is it
> > really a single file or a directory ?
>
> It really doesn't matter which file - the problem occurred with any file that setup wanted to write for which it did not have write permissions. If you want an example, I remember it occurring with /usr/lib/ldscripts/i386pe.x but it could have been any other file.
>
> I think there may be a more general problem here. I messed up all my file permissions, which is how this problem came to light, and I am slowly putting them right.
>
> However, I am getting exactly the same problem with crontab. It doesn't have permission to write in /var/cron/tabs, and when you crontab -e and finish editing, it hangs up, using 98% CPU.
>
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