From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 128194 invoked by alias); 12 Oct 2017 04:02:25 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 128182 invoked by uid 89); 12 Oct 2017 04:02:24 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_SOFTFAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=UD:setup.exe, setupexe, setup.exe, price X-HELO: mail11.tpgi.com.au Received: from mail11.tpgi.com.au (HELO mail11.tpgi.com.au) (203.12.160.161) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 12 Oct 2017 04:02:22 +0000 X-TPG-Junk-Status: Message not scanned X-TPG-Abuse: host=220-245-251-204.static.tpgi.com.au; ip=220.245.251.204; date=Thu, 12 Oct 2017 15:02:12 +1100 Received: from [0.0.0.0] (220-245-251-204.static.tpgi.com.au [220.245.251.204]) by mail11.tpgi.com.au (envelope-from lithium-cygwin@shaddybaddah.name) (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id v9C429Uw021019 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2017 15:02:12 +1100 Subject: Resolved: Re: setup stuck on cygwin.ldif To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <8b9ba941-37da-fe2c-32c3-7ac5037a8b4f@cornell.edu> From: Shaddy Baddah Message-ID: <30c49c8f-9b30-a77f-5a32-a43556f2ff0c@shaddybaddah.name> Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 04:02:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/45.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <8b9ba941-37da-fe2c-32c3-7ac5037a8b4f@cornell.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-10/txt/msg00111.txt.bz2 Hi, On 12/10/17 06:15, Ken Brown wrote: > On 10/8/2017 9:46 AM, Shaddy Baddah wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have a weird problem happening... so I have tried to update a 64-bit >> Cygwin installation on Windows 10 Pro. I closed all Cygwin processes, >> and a ps -ef is showing only the ps process itself. >> >> In anycase, during the install I was prompted that the file >> /usr/share/cygwin/cygwin.ldif was busy. >> >> I ran Process Explorer and searched for what might have the file open. >> I couldn't find anything. I clicked retry a number of times, but it >> wouldn't yield. Finally, I clicked continue. And now I'm stuck in this >> endless loop on the file: >> >> https://imgur.com/Nj35Y3T > > The progress bar shows that your disk is almost full. Could that be the > problem? Thanks for your concern. I've found the problem. I haven't been vigilant in my installation/update procedure. And I've paid a high price. I normally only ever install as a "software user", portapps, that I have to "runas" to obtain a command prompt to. From that command prompt I run the setup.exe, and all the files end up owned by portapps, not my normal desktop user. I instituted this policy more than a decade ago when I accidentally corrupted my install, by running a script or something like that, that deleted some "system files" due to a path issue. My desktop user has no permissions to modify any installed Cygwin files other than in their /home directory. The policy could work using a privileged user, but I also seek to avoid being dependant on using a privileged user on my desktop. Well, I've corrupted my install now by accidentally running an update last month as the elevated administrator user. A bunch of directories are now owned by the privileged user, and the portapps user can't modify the directories. I'll solve my own mess now. Thanks again. -- Regards, Shaddy -- 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