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Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2003 22:36:02 -0400
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From: Tim Dierks <tim AT dierks DOT org>
Subject: Re: (Cygwin) Installation & Uninstallation issues
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At 08:57 PM 10/5/2003, Tim Dierks wrote:
>At 08:32 PM 10/5/2003, signa AT birch DOT net wrote:
>>Did you try renaming the present install, and any relevant registry 
>>entries, and
>>retry after that (to avoid bad blocks in filesystem or a munged NTFS 
>>structure
>>that NTFS somehow hasn't gotten around to repairing?)
>
>I've tried renaming C:\cygwin, rebooting, and attempting to delete the 
>directory while there is no 'current' cygwin installation. Searching the 
>registry for 'tabs' (the name of the leaf directory) finds no relevant 
>instances. A disk check for NTFS problems didn't help.

I did find the problem. At some point, something had changed the owner of 
/ver/cron/tabs to "System". Resetting the ownership on the cygwin directory 
and all children, then resetting the privileges on it and all children, 
enabled me to delete it.

  - Tim



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