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 Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 18:22:21 +1000 (EST) From: Luke Kendall Subject: Problems with a fresh install To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Message-Id: <20050902082221.095E383CA5@pessard.research.canon.com.au> I just installed a fresh version of Cygwin from a mirror site. Despite installing All, and running ssh-host-config there were no /etc/ssh* files created. After the install I tried to chown files to the Administrators group so that other people could update the Cygwin installation if desired. I got many, many errors like this: chown: changing ownership of `/usr/share/doc/lynx/lynx_help/COPYING': No such file or directory $ ls -l /usr/share/doc/lynx/lynx_help/COPYING lrwxrwxrwx 1 luke Users 47 Sep 2 13:48 /usr/share/doc/lynx/lynx_help/COPYING -> /tmp/install/INSTALL/usr/share/doc/lynx/COPYING $ ls -l /tmp/install/INSTALL/usr/share/doc/lynx/COPYING ls: /tmp/install/INSTALL/usr/share/doc/lynx/COPYING: No such file or directory $ ls -l /tmp/install ls: /tmp/install: No such file or directory $ ls -l /tmp total 0 Cygwin seems to be running extraordinarily slowly too. Even an ls takes a long time: $ time ls -l /tmp total 0 real 0m3.897s user 0m0.020s sys 0m0.060s Also, the real time reported from /bin/time is wrong: $ /bin/time /bin/ls /tmp 0.07user 0.03system 0:01.64elapsed 6%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 14528maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (907major+0minor)pagefaults 0swaps since I timed that via a watch at over 4 seconds. This suggests that /bin/time also took about two seconds for its part of the process. Later, though, the missing files do indeed exist, and speed is okay. Any idea what on earth is going on? Why the failed chmods? Likewise, running ssh-host-config (later) creates the ssh files. It's almost like lots of the files hadn't actually been flushed through onto the filesystem, which seems like crazy talk. Is there some background task which runs after setup.exe has finished, that is still going? luke -- 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/