I believe you've put your finger on the problem exactly. Before trashing my
own old cygwin setup, I had just reinstalled w2k myself, ending up with the
same file ownership problems you encountered. So it seems that setup reacts
badly when it cannot overwrite a file.
--dave
- Original Messag
I'm on a fresh re-install of Win2k which still has IE 5 on it... I've
applied no patches at all... Windows update scares me more than the cygwin
one does ;)
Actually, the problem was solved for me by cleaning out and trashing my
entire cygwin folder + package cache and reinstalling everything from
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Subject: Re: Memleak Apparently Attributable to Cygwin Setup
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > I have experienced this as well. Yes it does "appear" to hang - but
after
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have experienced this as well. Yes it does "appear" to hang - but after
doing a number of full installs,
I am VERY confident that you just need to be VERY patient. It may indeed a
couple of hours depending
on numerous factors. YMMV. I have no clue what it is that is ca
I have experienced this as well. Yes it does "appear" to hang - but after
doing a number of full installs,
I am VERY confident that you just need to be VERY patient. It may indeed a
couple of hours depending
on numerous factors. YMMV. I have no clue what it is that is causing the
delay - but the
Oops. I should have mentioned:
I'm using Cygwin Setup 2.340.2.5, under Windows 2000.
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Dan Hatton
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