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:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=O58nr1/8HHEmcaaX zK11ta2zjLY5F4JBiQFisHYb6J40sY2BwcvvUpq+ffIX5ZN0Vj6Szdc1eaAI/hXh I8VMWwuZwm9qajy2RFKEDTWOrW8fBDOPCnf+8TsHxCeAqlMyRCKGCPiY4PomOlE3 EDOdz8xw73YEXfepoAMEQMIXRdk= 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:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=GRfTU22Vb6J9qgfgQozc9y 7Sfys=; b=L6/WysIE1cImyNhYJd3ajrV4sHHfEXije+UxHzgc1tfQMm0Pklk1m0 Kg+SS1cv/L14mRB42pBVOlrNH8MSX8mS/P69SAhbnrqYGjpM2LCCwgcjF7773fwp ilowkeEdAo2HCTYamInE8O+I+SdwmiKZiZg9xT6hXgShJe2Sg60Sg= 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=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=H*MI:sk:dc0410d, business, H*F:D*se, H*Ad:D*se X-HELO: mail.lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: File create problem To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: From: Peter Rosin Message-ID: <41079fab-88f8-5381-495f-de659f56c6ff@lysator.liu.se> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2016 17:29:32 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi again! Ok, I "solved it" by reinstalling AVG. No idea why that helped... Buggy PoS. Cheers, Peter On 2016-08-25 15:54, Peter Rosin wrote: > Hi! > > I have the strangest of problems. Freshly downloaded setup-x86_64.exe > fails to create some files, e.g. bash.exe, with access denied. So, I > started digging. > > Trying to create bash.exe (with any random content) by other means > also fails. > > Creating other files in the C:\cygwin64\bin folder works just fine, > e.g. C:\cygwin64\bin\bach.exe. > > There is no existing C:\cygwin64\bin\bash.exe that has permissions > that can be examined, so the only permissions that can reasonably > have any effect are those for the folder, but as stated, it is ok > to create e.g. C:\cygwin64\bin\bach.exe which means that folder > permissions appear to be ok. > > Renaming the existing C:\cygwin64 to C:\cygwin64old, and then > trying to install a fresh copy in C:\cygwin64 gets the same > permission error. > > Installing bash et al with the base in C:\cygwin65 works just fine. > > So, it appears that the name "C:\cygwin64\bin\bash.exe" (and a few > others) is just special in some way. > > I'm not part of any domain, and I'm on Windows 10. Rebooting > doesn't help. Disabling AVG business edition doesn't help. > > What can cause this? Can there be some hidden link to a pending > remove? Any suggestions what I can try? > > Cheers, > Peter -- 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