Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 14:18:31 +0200 (CEST) From: Pavel Tsekov X-X-Sender: ptsekov@moria To: John Carlyle- Clarke cc: "Cygwin List (E-mail)" Subject: RE: Setup 2.249.2.5 Hangs during "Install from Local Directory" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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. > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/