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 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: Problem uninstalling/deleting cygwin Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 12:36:21 -0800 Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <1106670496.10021.18.camel@linuxpc.lune> <1106676434.10021.29.camel@linuxpc.lune> <1106683970.10021.54.camel@linuxpc.lune> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: farscape.lynx.com User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041206) In-Reply-To: <1106683970.10021.54.camel@linuxpc.lune> X-IsSubscribed: yes Neven Luetic wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 25.01.2005, 11:47 -0800 schrieb Andrew DeFaria: > >> Neven Luetic wrote: >> >>> In the meantime I moved the directory away and I am able to install >>> a new cygwin and remove it by deleting the directory. However I can >>> not get rid of the old directory. Everything inside, that's a real >>> file, can be deleted manually by setting the appropriate privileges >>> - what remains are just the stale symbolic links and some symbolic >>> links to Windows files like /etc/hosts to >>> C:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc\networks. >> >> I'm curious. What happens if you open a Windows Explorer and attempt >> to delete the top level directory for this renegade Cygwin install? > > It says: "x cannot be deleted. Access denied. Maybe the source file is > opened" (maybe this translation from german is bad, but I saw it > before, so you'll recognize it). Does any process have this file opened? Try using Process Explorer from SysInternals.com. -- Old quarterbacks never die, they just fade back and pass -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/