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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 17:38:25 +1100 (EST)
From: Luke Kendall <luke DOT kendall AT cisra DOT canon DOT com DOT au>
Subject: RE: What to do when setup fails?
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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On 11 Nov, To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com wrote:
>  Sounds like the first attempted install, with the insufficient 
>  permissions and the "Mount: command completed successfully" might have 
>  left things in a somehow strange state. 

I no longer think this.
 
>  I'll force a system disc check and reboot and try again.  Then scrub 
>  Cygwin and try a fresh install if that's no better. 

That didn't help.  I now suspect hardware problems: specifically, a
faulty hard drive.  There have been various odd problems unrelated to
Cygwin.  E.g. the screen went blank for about 2 hours after rebooting
requesting a file system check.  Very noisy hard drive (it's driving me
even battier than I normally am!).

luke


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