Re: Full 1.7 Install -> "Insufficient disk space to repair security descriptor at index $SII for file 9"

[Stephen M. Kenton]

Something very strange is going on. It happened on the second system 
also. I did a full Cygwin 1.7 install on the HP Media Center PC running 
Windows XP Media Center Edition at the lab and got the same results. 
After the install I pulled up a console and did a uname -a to make sure 
what version was installed. Then I rebooted and the system came back up 
fine. Then I scheduled the chkdisk and rebooted so it could run, and 
there it was, bad index $SII and $SDH on file 9 again, after which the 
system gets to the windows startup screen and then returns to POST. So 
it seems likely that the chkdisk is what is eating the system after the 
large amount of data from a full Cygwin 1.7 install probably tickles 
some bug in the Windows/NTFS code. As I recall, this system had the 
original 250GB NTFS partition resized with Gparted and then Ubuntu was 
installed in the free space thus created. Recently the Ubuntu install 
was overwritten by Fedora Core 11 before I got the system. When I booted 
up Windows it immediately started downloading lots of patches and I made 
sure it was fully patched to SP3 with every thing Windows Update wanted 
before I did the Cygwin 1.7 install. Maybe some very recent update from 
Microsoft is responsible. This box also has a restore partition so I 
went though the magic F10 sequence for this box to reload windows and 
can do more testing if it is deemed useful. If I'm the only once seeing 
this then it probably has something to do with resizing or moving NTFS 
which might be worth a warning note somewhere. I will speculate that 
Cygwin has been getting bigger as packages are added and maybe it 
recently went over some threshold of size when everything is installed 
at once by clicking the top "Default->Install" line of the installer 
window. I'll try the incremental install workaround and see if it avoids 
the problem.

Steve
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