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Date: | Wed, 8 Jul 2009 21:56:25 +0100 |
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Subject: | Re: Full 1.7 Install -> "Insufficient disk space to repair security descriptor at index $SII for file 9" |
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2009/7/8 Stephen M. Kenton: > Something very strange is going on. It happened on the second system also. I > did a full Cygwin 1.7 install on the HP Media Center PC running Windows XP > Media Center Edition at the lab and got the same results. After the install > I pulled up a console and did a uname -a to make sure what version was > installed. Then I rebooted and the system came back up fine. Then I > scheduled the chkdisk and rebooted so it could run, and there it was, bad > index $SII and $SDH on file 9 again, after which the system gets to the > windows startup screen and then returns to POST. So it seems likely that the > chkdisk is what is eating the system after the large amount of data from a > full Cygwin 1.7 install probably tickles some bug in the Windows/NTFS code. > As I recall, this system had the original 250GB NTFS partition resized with > Gparted and then Ubuntu was installed in the free space thus created. > Recently the Ubuntu install was overwritten by Fedora Core 11 before I got > the system. When I booted up Windows it immediately started downloading lots > of patches and I made sure it was fully patched to SP3 with every thing > Windows Update wanted before I did the Cygwin 1.7 install. Maybe some very > recent update from Microsoft is responsible. This box also has a restore > partition so I went though the magic F10 sequence for this box to reload > windows and can do more testing if it is deemed useful. If I'm the only once > seeing this then it probably has something to do with resizing or moving > NTFS which might be worth a warning note somewhere. I will speculate that > Cygwin has been getting bigger as packages are added and maybe it recently > went over some threshold of size when everything is installed at once by > clicking the top "Default->Install" line of the installer window. I'll try > the incremental install workaround and see if it avoids the problem. Please make some use of the return key; this is really difficult to read. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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