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Mark Harig wrote:
> Dave Korn wrote:

>>   http://cygwin.com/acronyms#BLODA
>>   
> 
> From that link:
> 
>> FYI     For Your Information. Also "Fix Yourself It" (for all the Star
>> Wars fans out there)
> 
> Perhaps, DIY (Do It Yourself) could be added.  My
> guess is that it is more commonly used and
> understood than "fix yourself it."

  I'm sure it is, but http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#OSCA :-)  After all, since
DIY is so commonly known and widely understood, people hardly need _us_ to
explain it to them!

> I am not yet using cygwin 1.7.  I am trying to install it (and
> un-install it) as I think a naive user might.  [ ... ]

> I see that at http://cygwin.com/1.7/faq/faq.setup.html, item 8 references
> the link that you provided under the heading "My computer hangs when
> I run Cygwin Setup!"   My computer is not "hanging" -- it is just issuing
> error messages during install/un-install using setup-1.7.exe.

  It is very likely that all your problems have been caused by the Logitech
process monitor.  When that's running, it interferes with cygwin enough that
it makes process spawning fail a lot, which means that some/all/many of the
post-install scripts fail in unpredictable and unmanageable ways, and such bit
that do run can hardly be expected to work - imagine what the effect would be
of taking a shell script and removing two out of every three lines randomly,
that's what happens when Logitech process monitor is causing all these
failures.  Not unsurprisingly, they may end up doing very wrong things or
nothing at all.

  However, now you've got rid of that, a quick re-run through setup.exe and
set everything to reinstall on the chooser page should fix it.

    cheers,
      DaveK

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