* Issues with removing cygwin installed TTF font files
@ 2020-09-13 14:16 Michael Soegtrop
2020-09-13 15:34 ` Ken Brown
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Michael Soegtrop @ 2020-09-13 14:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
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
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* Re: Issues with removing cygwin installed TTF font files
2020-09-13 14:16 Issues with removing cygwin installed TTF font files Michael Soegtrop
@ 2020-09-13 15:34 ` Ken Brown
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Ken Brown @ 2020-09-13 15:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
On 9/13/2020 10:16 AM, Michael Soegtrop wrote:
> 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!
/usr/share/fonts/microsoft contains symlinks to TTF files:
$ ls -al /usr/share/fonts/microsoft/
total 158
drwxr-xr-x+ 1 kbrown-admin None 0 2019-07-31 11:36 ./
drwxr-xr-x+ 1 kbrown-admin None 0 2018-09-30 17:18 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 kbrown-admin None 36 2019-07-31 11:36 .uuid
lrwxrwxrwx 1 kbrown-admin None 26 2018-09-28 15:25 arial.ttf ->
/c/Windows/Fonts/arial.ttf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 kbrown-admin None 28 2018-09-28 15:25 arialbd.ttf ->
/c/Windows/Fonts/arialbd.ttf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 kbrown-admin None 28 2018-09-28 15:25 arialbi.ttf ->
/c/Windows/Fonts/arialbi.ttf
[...]
What Cygwin symlinks look like to Windows tools depends on the filesystem, the
value of the CYGWIN environment variable, and other factors. See
https://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#pathnames-symlinks
Ken
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