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 Subject: Re: Problem uninstalling/deleting cygwin From: Neven Luetic To: cygwin@cygwin.com In-Reply-To: References: <1106670496.10021.18.camel@linuxpc.lune> <1106676434.10021.29.camel@linuxpc.lune> <1106683970.10021.54.camel@linuxpc.lune> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 22:52:17 +0100 Message-Id: <1106689937.10021.69.camel@linuxpc.lune> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes > > 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. Process Explorer doesn't show anything (I looked for the handle "cygwin.old", i.e. the top level dir). I killed any process that I could (including explorer) and stopped AntiVir, Apache and mysql. No change. Anyway, those stale links cannot be accessed as files at all. I can only see them using "ls" or apply chmod/chown on them. Nothing else. If I try "cat file", it says "No such file or directory". File zombies. -- 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/