X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:reply-to:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=wT/ucKkdem6YuI4T dZjjD25SQuU6DD8o4Mqd/w5kRbU+X5cdBmOUfPDecr84xhPT4xc3BhKqQXJ34MVj XDyKtsKLmX1jF2lXVX2QiIBACHupfHA2D23NxvY7RQhFksM7y/sEb6s79iWHgBaI EEd0zQziIlOUoxbI8AGbM5ZAQQA= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:reply-to:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=rc2MUw6Z2R9vBiMinctmfl 8j9O0=; b=QGrPe+vOKY6Wyt0Dvrxz8bSa/khKee7eJut9VkEzhtfg11zUlPi2Yj bRQMeUswT3GcexuH+2TNQ6/UaqshhkL8RzLv6IHjQPkU8r2RLI/Da0bNoBSHHBC6 do2PemQ6f+99GsaQNxH5wl8N4Rwiu3kTjnGpYOL8qY6El7l2333yE= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: vms173017pub.verizon.net X-CMAE-Score: 0 X-CMAE-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=D9vw8UVm c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=toTMxtHQF+05ooui8kuJQw==:117 a=vP6ySPhpAh4A:10 a=N659UExz7-8A:10 a=w_pzkKWiAAAA:8 a=oR5dmqMzAAAA:8 a=-9mUelKeXuEA:10 a=YNv0rlydsVwA:10 a=nGRvz1CnqnGyczqKu6wA:9 a=pILNOxqGKmIA:10 Message-id: <54AFDF29.8010304@cygwin.com> Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 09:01:13 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-to: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 MIME-version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Unable to extract libkbdsg.a while installing the w32api-runtime / gcc-core package References: In-reply-to: Content-type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit On 01/08/2015 08:17 PM, rocwhite168 wrote: > Hi Cygwin users, > > I've been trying to install the w32api-runtime package (required by > gcc-core) for my 64-bit Cygwin installed under Windows 8.1, but the > installer always gives an error "Unable to extract > /usr/lib/w32api/libkbdsg.a. This file is in use or some other error > occurred. Please stop all Cygwin processes and select "Retry", or > select "Continue" to go anyway (you will need to reboot)." Note that > the mentioned file does not exist yet in that location. I have > successfully installed w32api-runtime on a different Windows 8.1 > machine though. The only noteworthy difference may be that this time > I've enabled compression on the cygwin64 root directory. > > Even weirder, it seems that I'm not able to create a file named > "libkbdsg.a" anywhere on BOTH Windows 8.1 machines. Renaming an > existing file to this name has no problem. However, the installer > seems to delete the file first instead of overwriting it, so manually > creating such named file doesn't help. > > Have any one encountered similar problems? Any help would be greatly > appreciated. If you're having a problem creating any file inside or outside of Cygwin tools, that suggests a virus/anti-virus tie-in. I'd recommend looking into this. -- Larry _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple