Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 16:57:25 -0400
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Subject: Re: Full 1.7 Install -> "Insufficient disk space to repair  security  	descriptor at index $SII for file 9"
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On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 09:56:25PM +0100, Andy Koppe wrote:
>2009/7/8 Stephen M. Kenton:
>> Something very strange is going on. It happened on the second system also. I
>> did a full Cygwin 1.7 install on the HP Media Center PC running Windows XP
>> Media Center Edition at the lab and got the same results. After the install
>> I pulled up a console and did a uname -a to make sure what version was
>> installed. Then I rebooted and the system came back up fine. Then I
>> scheduled the chkdisk and rebooted so it could run, and there it was, bad
>> index $SII and $SDH on file 9 again, after which the system gets to the
>> windows startup screen and then returns to POST. So it seems likely that the
>> chkdisk is what is eating the system after the large amount of data from a
>> full Cygwin 1.7 install probably tickles some bug in the Windows/NTFS code.
>> As I recall, this system had the original 250GB NTFS partition resized with
>> Gparted and then Ubuntu was installed in the free space thus created.
>> Recently the Ubuntu install was overwritten by Fedora Core 11 before I got
>> the system. When I booted up Windows it immediately started downloading lots
>> of patches and I made sure it was fully patched to SP3 with every thing
>> Windows Update wanted before I did the Cygwin 1.7 install. Maybe some very
>> recent update from Microsoft is responsible. This box also has a restore
>> partition so I went though the magic F10 sequence for this box to reload
>> windows and can do more testing if it is deemed useful. If I'm the only once
>> seeing this then it probably has something to do with resizing or moving
>> NTFS which might be worth a warning note somewhere. I will speculate that
>> Cygwin has been getting bigger as packages are added and maybe it recently
>> went over some threshold of size when everything is installed at once by
>> clicking the top "Default->Install" line of the installer window. I'll try
>> the incremental install workaround and see if it avoids the problem.
>
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