Problems with a fresh install

[Luke Kendall <luke dot kendall at cisra dot canon dot com dot au>]

I just installed a fresh version of Cygwin from a mirror site.
Despite installing All, and running ssh-host-config there were no
/etc/ssh* files created.

After the install I tried to chown files to the Administrators group so
that other people could update the Cygwin installation if desired.  I
got many, many errors like this:

chown: changing ownership of `/usr/share/doc/lynx/lynx_help/COPYING': No such file or directory
                                                             
$ ls -l /usr/share/doc/lynx/lynx_help/COPYING
lrwxrwxrwx  1 luke Users 47 Sep  2 13:48 /usr/share/doc/lynx/lynx_help/COPYING -> /tmp/install/INSTALL/usr/share/doc/lynx/COPYING
$ ls -l /tmp/install/INSTALL/usr/share/doc/lynx/COPYING
ls: /tmp/install/INSTALL/usr/share/doc/lynx/COPYING: No such file or directory
$ ls -l /tmp/install
ls: /tmp/install: No such file or directory
$ ls -l /tmp
total 0

Cygwin seems to be running extraordinarily slowly too.  Even an ls
takes a long time:

$ time ls -l /tmp
total 0                                                                                                                                                         real    0m3.897s
user    0m0.020s
sys     0m0.060s

Also, the real time reported from /bin/time is wrong:

$ /bin/time /bin/ls /tmp
0.07user 0.03system 0:01.64elapsed 6%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 14528maxresident)k  0inputs+0outputs (907major+0minor)pagefaults 0swaps

since I timed that via a watch at over 4 seconds.  This suggests that
/bin/time also took about two seconds for its part of the process.

Later, though, the missing files do indeed exist, and speed is okay.
Any idea what on earth is going on?  Why the failed chmods?

Likewise, running ssh-host-config (later) creates the ssh files.

It's almost like lots of the files hadn't actually been flushed through
onto the filesystem, which seems like crazy talk.  Is there some
background task which runs after setup.exe has finished, that is still
going?

luke


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