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From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb AT ukf DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Serious Installation problems - possible workround but rapid fix required.
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 22:16:52 -0000
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Dave Korn wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of John Macallister
>> Sent: 26 November 2004 16:57
>
>
>> Start with clean (no Cygwin files on disk) Windows2000 system.
>
>> 93%  In-use files have been replaced. You need to reboot as soon as
>> possible to activate the new versions.
>>       Cygwin may operate incorrectly until you reboot.
>
>
>  These two don't go together.  Methinks the system was not actually as
> clean as you may have believed.  Snarf yourself a copy of the cygcheck
> executable and stash it in a directory somewhere safe; then clean your
> system the same way you did before; then run "cygcheck -s -v -r >
> cygcheck.out" and send the resulting file to the list ****as an attachment
> please**** and we'll take a look at it.  Maybe there's some 3rd party
> application installed on that machine that depends on cygwin and comes 
> with
> its own copy that is interfering.  (See http://cygwin.com/acronyms#3PP)

Almost certainly. An erroneous mount for /etc is a pretty likely explanation 
for the "Can't open Package Database for writing: No such file or directory" 
that you are seeing.

Max.


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