It gets better. There is something quite wierd going on here.
I just wanted to upgrade cygwin1.dll so I downloaded cygwin-1.5.9-1.tar.bz2 from ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sources.redhat.com/pub/cygwin/release/cygwin/ I then went into cygwin (bash), changed to /cygdrive/c/cygwin (where I had put the bzip2 file) and did a bunzip2 cygwin-1.5.9-1.tar.bz2 No problem, it ran fine and I was left with a cygwin-1.5.9-1.tar file in c:\cygwin (or /cygdrive/c/cygwin depending on your view). I figured that cygwin would not work too well if I used (cygwin) tar to extract the files from within (cygwin) bash. So I closed the bash prompt (I'm now not running any programs compiled against cygwin1.dll of any version) and then brought up c:\cygwin in a Windows Explorer window. Now it gets wierd... Next I ran Winzip to extract the files from the tar. It opened fine and showed me the list of files. When I pressed the "Extract" button it started to extract files and (as expected) asked me if it was OK to overwrite existing files. I said "yes" and off it went. But, guess what, after extracting about 15 files it hit a snag and reported "disk full". Now this means that there is something really fundamental about this area of the file system on an NTFS drive that is repeatedly causing disk full errors at a fairly low level. Log from winzip... Extracting to "C:\cygwin\" Use Path: yes Overlay Files: no Extracting cygserver.conf Extracting cygcheck.exe Extracting cygpath.exe Extracting cygserver-config Extracting cygwin1.dll Extracting dumper.exe Extracting getfacl.exe Extracting ipcrm.exe Extracting ipcs.exe Extracting kill.exe Extracting mkgroup.exe Extracting mkpasswd.exe Extracting mount.exe Extracting passwd.exe Extracting ps.exe Extracting regtool.exe Extracting setfacl.exe Extracting ssp.exe Extracting strace.exe Extracting umount.exe Extracting _ansi.h Can't create output file: C:\cygwin\usr\include\_syslist.h Furthermore, when I had this problem last week, before I joined this mailing list, I decided to try changing the permissions on all files in c:\cygwin to be owned by my windows 2003 user, just in case. I went into the standard Windows Explorer "Security" tab of the folder properties and chose "Advanced" then "Owner" and changed it to me. Again it got halfway through then reported "disk full". The disk is definitely not full, I have been merrily creating huge files elsewhere on the same drive. I don't think that we should get hung up on the fact that I went an unusual way about this rather than installing using the setup.exe installer. I'm pretty confident that something similar would have happened had I used setup.exe, it would have just taken longer and, anyway, surely what I did is all that the installer does anyway? I posted a cygcheck report on the last posting so I won't waste space by re-posting here. Please do let me know if there's any other diagnostics I can attach to help make this easier. Regards, Carl Peto ----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Carl Peto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 8:13 PM Subject: Re: df reports negative values on Network Shares > At 02:55 PM 4/14/2004, you wrote: > >I had exactly the same problem as Thomas... > > > >$ df -h > >Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > >C:\Program Files\Borland\Interbase > > 1.0G -64Z 37M 101% /opt/interbase > >C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts > > 1.0G -64Z 37M 101% /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts > >C:\cygwin\bin 1.0G -64Z 37M 101% /usr/bin > >C:\cygwin\lib 1.0G -64Z 37M 101% /usr/lib > >C:\cygwin 1.0G -64Z 37M 101% / > >c: 1.0G -64Z 37M 101% /cygdrive/c > >e: 38G 19G 19G 49% /cygdrive/e > >m: 13G 4.1G 9.3G 31% /cygdrive/m > >p: 13G 5.4G 7.9G 40% /cygdrive/p > >q: 13G 5.4G 7.9G 40% /cygdrive/q > >r: 13G 4.1G 9.3G 31% /cygdrive/r > >s: 13G 5.4G 7.9G 40% /cygdrive/s > > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] /cygdrive/p/Releases/BPM > > > >...only in my case it happened on the C drive so it has crippled cygwin as > >virtually nothing can be written without error messages like "out of disk > >space" coming up. > > > >This suggests to me that it's more low-level than just a df problem, > >possibly some interaction with Windows 2003 Server. > > > > > >Here is the cygcheck -s -v -r... > > > <snip> > > > > > Cygwin DLL version info: > > DLL version: 1.5.1 > > DLL epoch: 19 > > DLL bad signal mask: 19005 > > > > Upgrade to the latest and try again. > > > -- > Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com > RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office > 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX > Holliston, MA 01746 > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
