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
