From: Michael Soegtrop <MSoegtrop@Michael-Soegtrop.de>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Issues with removing cygwin installed TTF font files
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2020 16:16:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2183c849-4ba5-5a83-a6c1-e061946420e1@Michael-Soegtrop.de> (raw)
Dear Cygwin Team and Users,
since a few months I have issues deleting cygwin installations. In some
cases randomly the /usr/share/fonts/microsoft folder and the TTF files
in it remain. According to DOS dir the folder contains junctions to TTF
files - not sure how this is possible - afaik a junction is for folders.
But what I get is this:
C:\ci\cygwin64_21081_16603\usr\share\fonts\microsoft>dir
Volume in drive C is SYSTEM
Volume Serial Number is 70C2-07FA
Directory of C:\ci\cygwin64_21081_16603\usr\share\fonts\test
02/07/2020 13:52 <DIR> .
02/07/2020 13:52 <DIR> ..
01/07/2020 11:47 <JUNCTION> ahronbd.ttf [...]
01/07/2020 11:47 <JUNCTION> andlso.ttf [...]
01/07/2020 11:47 <JUNCTION> angsa.ttf [...]
01/07/2020 11:47 <JUNCTION> angsab.ttf [...]
01/07/2020 11:47 <JUNCTION> angsai.ttf [...]
01/07/2020 11:47 <JUNCTION> angsau.ttf [...]
01/07/2020 11:47 <JUNCTION> angsaub.ttf [...]
01/07/2020 11:47 <JUNCTION> angsaui.ttf [...]
01/07/2020 11:47 <JUNCTION> angsauz.ttf [...]
:
Interesting is that this does not happen always. I am working on a open
source project and our CI installs and removes cygwin about 100 times a
day. I see this issue about 20 times per month - distributed over all of
our CI runners. Maybe Windows gives the TTF file some special handling
every now and again, but I checked the registry and there is nothing
pointing to this cygwin folder, except the cygwin installation registry.
I couldn't find any method to remove these files. I made sure I have
delete rights and that nobody has a lock on these files, but still
whatever I tried (Explorer, cygwin admin console, DOS admin console,
reboot a few times, chkdsk, google) failed.
If you have an idea that could help me to delete these files reliably
and/or avoid this situation, it would help me a lot!
Best regards,
Michael
next reply other threads:[~2020-09-13 14:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-13 14:16 Michael Soegtrop [this message]
2020-09-13 15:34 ` Ken Brown
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=2183c849-4ba5-5a83-a6c1-e061946420e1@Michael-Soegtrop.de \
--to=msoegtrop@michael-soegtrop.de \
--cc=cygwin@cygwin.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).