Mail Archives: cygwin/2009/11/19/01:20:38
On 11/18/2009 11:32 PM, Alexander Quinn wrote:
> When I try to install the latest Cygwin 1.7.0-64 beta on Windows 7 (x86
> RTM Enterprise build 7600), it downloads correctly, but then I get the
> error "Unable to extract /etc/ -- the file is in use." Previously, I
> was using Cygwin 1.5.25-14 on this machine. That installed perfectly the
> first time and worked normally.
>
> Before installing the 1.7 beta, I did the following: - Removed my old
> sshd service. (cygrunsrv --remove sshd) - Renamed the old Cygwin
> directory to hide it. - Restarted my machine. - Verified sshd service
> does not appear in Services. - Verified no Cygwin-related processes in
> task manager or Process Explorer.
>
> At this "In-use files detected" error message box, if I click Retry, it
> keeps coming up. If I click Continue, the progress window stays open and
> the progress bar flashes, but it makes no progress. In setup.log, the
> last error before it ends says, "io_stream_cygfile:
> fopen(/etc/setup/setup.rc) failed 22 Invalid argument". I'll paste the
> whole file at the bottom of this message.
>
> After setup failed using the defaults, I tried a few ideas I found
> searching this list and the web:
> - Installed for this user only (as well as Administrator install).
> - Ran setup as Administrator (as well as running normally).
> - Checked Process Explorer for anything that might be
> using a Cygwin DLL. Nothing.
> - Installed to different target paths. I
> tried c:\c\, c:\p\c\ and c:\Cygwin\. - Created a few of the directories
> ahead of time (i.e. c:\c\etc\, c:\c\home\, and so on). - Closed any other
> program that can't be closed.
>
> - Downloaded and then installed from Local Directory (as well as
> installing from Internet).
>
> Questions:
> - Is there any other information I can provide that would help
> somebody find the problem?
> - Is there anything else I should have done to completely uninstall 1.5?
Beyond this -
<http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all>, no.
> - Since it installed easily with 1.5 but it
> doesn't work at all with 1.7, could this be new problem with the 1.7
> installer?
Could be but it's not a common one. I just installed 1.7 last night (on XP)
without
this problem and this is the first report to the list of it.
> I would greatly appreciate any assistance anyone is willing to provide.
Of the top of my head, the only things I can think of trying are:
1. Use Process Explorer (or handle.exe from the same guys) to see what
else has anything along the line of '/etc/setup/setup.rc' open, both
before
the install and at the time of the problem.
2. Try making '/etc/setup' before the install. Make sure you have access to
this (i.e. verify you can make 'setup.rc').
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A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?
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