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: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Subject: RE: a standard place to get cygwin Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 18:35:13 -0500 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Green, Keith" To: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 19 Jan 2005 23:35:13.0966 (UTC) FILETIME=[863CF4E0:01C4FE7F] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id j0JNa9Ul004299 > On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > I suspect the problem isn't with the mirror. You mention a previous > > installation of Cygwin -- perhaps you have stale mounts? > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Green, Keith wrote: > > > > Sounds to me, though, like you have an errant Cygwin > install hanging > > > around. First thing to do is follow this FAQ: > > > > > > How do I uninstall all of Cygwin? > > > > > > > I was skeptical, but that was it! > > Ah, so it *was* the problem of stale mounts... > Igor Yes, though I'm not sure what a stale mount means in a registry context. It didn't click for me when I was deleting registry entries, but it does now that you mention it again, that all those "mount" entries under Cygwin Solutions was probably what you were talking about. Thanks, k -- 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/