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Re: Serious Installation problems - possible workround but rapid fix required.


Dave Korn wrote:
-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of John Macallister
Sent: 26 November 2004 16:57


Start with clean (no Cygwin files on disk) Windows2000 system.

93%  In-use files have been replaced. You need to reboot as soon as
possible to activate the new versions.
      Cygwin may operate incorrectly until you reboot.


These two don't go together. Methinks the system was not actually as
clean as you may have believed. Snarf yourself a copy of the cygcheck
executable and stash it in a directory somewhere safe; then clean your
system the same way you did before; then run "cygcheck -s -v -r >
cygcheck.out" and send the resulting file to the list ****as an attachment
please**** and we'll take a look at it. Maybe there's some 3rd party
application installed on that machine that depends on cygwin and comes with
its own copy that is interfering. (See http://cygwin.com/acronyms#3PP)

Almost certainly. An erroneous mount for /etc is a pretty likely explanation for the "Can't open Package Database for writing: No such file or directory" that you are seeing.


Max.


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