Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C4D64C.3670BA11" Subject: FW: Serious Installation problems - possible workround but rapid fix required. Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 19:47:09 -0000 Message-ID: <5141442C74119B45993BD8CF3DC8C9F12E8327@exchng3.physics.ox.ac.uk> X-MS-Has-Attach: yes X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "John Macallister" To: X-IsSubscribed: yes ------_=_NextPart_001_01C4D64C.3670BA11 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I've done some more tests and here's what I did. I saved cygcheck from a previous failed installation which created a bin directory with some contents but didn't complete. I removed virtually everything from the system apart from Windows itself, including all references to Cygwin/Cygnus in the registry, and the attached file is the output file from cygcheck -s -v -r > cygout.txt I then removed Cygwin/Cygnus items from the registry because running cygcheck appears to add some things to the registry. I then did an install from the Internet using "Install" for all components. This proceeded until (as before): 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. The Progress window indicates: =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 _update-info-dir-00230-1 /usr/X11R6/share/doc/Cygwin/xorg-x11-f100-6.8.1.0.README=20 Clicking OK then produces the folllowing window. Can't open Package Database for writing: No such file or directory. The procedure completes but Cygwin has not been properly installed. Rebooting makes no difference. I hope this helps in pinpointing the problem. John Name: John B. 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