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From: Maurice Mengel <mauricemengel AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:33:36 -0500
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Subject: Re: "ReBaseImage faled with last error = 6" for read-only files, too.
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Thanks for your mail! I sometimes run into this problem and usually
that =C2=A0leads me sooner or later I to reinstall the complete cygwin.
Currently this is my biggest problem with cygwin, so I write to say
nothing more than that I really appreciate that you work on this
problem.


On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Jim Schneider
<jim DOT schneider AT dataflux DOT com> wrote:
>
> I apologize if this is a well-known problem. =C2=A0I ran into the "last e=
rror =3D 6" problem trying to rebase some DLLs installed by perl's CPAN mod=
ule. =C2=A0The advice you find if you google that error message (kill all c=
ygwin processes and services, rebooting if necessary) will _not_ work if th=
e problem is a file marked as read-only.
>
> I am working on a patch, which is complicated by the need to avoid having=
 rebase link against cygwin1.dll, and the way Windows Vista & 7 manage ACLs=
. =C2=A0In the meantime, I figured having a mention of another possible cau=
se of this problem could save someone else from fruitlessly rebooting their=
 system into safe mode in a vain effort to make CPAN work.
>
> If you run into "ReBaseImage failed with last error =3D 6", and you've ki=
lled every cygwin process you find running, before you reboot, check the pe=
rmissions on the DLL that's causing the error. =C2=A0"ls -l" will show the =
current permissions, and "chmod u+w" will fix `em.
>
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