On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, John Carlyle- Clarke wrote: Please, ask about one problem at a time. Is setup which is causing problems for you or some of the Cygwin packages ?
I was under the impression that you're having troubles installing Cygwin due to a setup.exe misbehaving. Now I see that you've succeeded in installing Cygwin. I am really puzzled right now. > > > This problem seems to occur when the setup program tries to > > > access a file for writing for which it does not have permission. > > > > Well, is there a chance you know also the name of the file. And is it > > really a single file or a directory ? > > It really doesn't matter which file - the problem occurred with any file that setup >wanted to write for which it did not have write permissions. If you want an example, >I remember it occurring with /usr/lib/ldscripts/i386pe.x but it could have been any >other file. > > I think there may be a more general problem here. I messed up all my file >permissions, which is how this problem came to light, and I am slowly putting them >right. > > However, I am getting exactly the same problem with crontab. It doesn't have >permission to write in /var/cron/tabs, and when you crontab -e and finish editing, it >hangs up, using 98% CPU. > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
