Re: Upgrade woes (file in use)

2009-03-29 Thread Nuzhna Pomoshch
--- On Sat, 3/14/09, Dave Korn dave.korn.cyg...@googlemail.com wrote: Nuzhna, you didn't mention what the two other apps are, but VPN software has been known to cause problems in the past.  What is the other stuff you have installed? The only two apps on the machine are Bloomberg and Redi.

Re: Upgrade woes (file in use)

2009-03-29 Thread Greg Chicares
On 2009-03-29 23:51Z, Nuzhna Pomoshch wrote: I have been fighting this for another two weeks with no progress whatsoever. Does any documentation exist that describes the least painful way to reinstall everything (specifically including what I should back up)? I also would place a high value

Re: Upgrade woes (file in use)

2009-03-29 Thread Dave Korn
Nuzhna Pomoshch wrote: --- On Sat, 3/14/09, Dave Korn wrote: Nuzhna, you didn't mention what the two other apps are, but VPN software has been known to cause problems in the past. What is the other stuff you have installed? The only two apps on the machine are Bloomberg and Redi.

Re: Upgrade woes (file in use)

2009-03-13 Thread Nuzhna Pomoshch
--- On Wed, 3/11/09, Dave Korn dave.korn.cyg...@googlemail.com wrote: It sounds very much like BLODA interference: your on-access anti-virus scanner may have kept an open handle on it after setup.exe had closed its own.=A0 It's known to occasionally happen with some AVs. I run absolutely no

Re: Upgrade woes (file in use)

2009-03-13 Thread Mark Geisert
Nuzhna Pomoshch writes: --- On Wed, 3/11/09, Dave Korn x...@yyy.zzz wrote: Please don't quote raw email addresses. It only feeds the spammers. It sounds very much like BLODA interference: your on-access anti-virus scanner may have kept an open handle on it after setup.exe had closed its

Re: Upgrade woes (file in use)

2009-03-13 Thread Dave Korn
Mark Geisert wrote: Nuzhna Pomoshch writes: --- On Wed, 3/11/09, Dave Korn x...@yyy.zzz wrote: It sounds very much like BLODA interference: I run absolutely no anti-virus (or firewall) on that machine. Please consider reading up on BLODA; although anti-virus is the most common form of

Re: Upgrade woes (file in use)

2009-03-12 Thread Vin Shelton
Nuzhna Pomoshch wrote: Back to my problem. Even if I had cygwin processes running, Continue should complete the install (though require a reboot). Why does it think there are running processes, and how can I fix it? Just FYI - when installing 1.7 on a new machine I ran into problems when I

Re: Upgrade woes (file in use)

2009-03-11 Thread Nuzhna Pomoshch
--- On Tue, 3/10/09, Tim McDaniel t...@panix.com wrote: There can be processes running that you can't see easily. I know there can be, but there aren't. Anyway, on my current system, even if I have closed all Bash windows and Emacs windows and and and, it is still running ssh-agent.exe.

Re: Upgrade woes (file in use)

2009-03-11 Thread Dave Korn
Nuzhna Pomoshch wrote: In-use files detected Unable to extract /etc/postinstall/bash.sh -- the file is in use. This is thoroughly bizarre. Nothing should be opening that file except setup.exe itself (either when creating it or when invoking bash to run it after installation is

RE: Upgrade woes (file in use)

2009-03-11 Thread Mike Marchywka
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:00:56 + From: reliable sources To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Upgrade woes (file in use) Nuzhna Pomoshch wrote: In-use files detected Unable to extract /etc/postinstall/bash.sh -- the file is in use

Re: Upgrade woes (file in use)

2009-03-11 Thread Dave Steenburgh
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Tim McDaniel t...@panix.com wrote: On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, Nuzhna Pomoshch y...@i remembered! wrote: During a recent upgrade of about a dozen packages, I saw the  Cygwin setup window progress normally (deleting package xyz...), and then up popped a window that

Re: Upgrade woes (file in use)

2009-03-10 Thread Tim McDaniel
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, Nuzhna Pomoshch y...@i remembered! wrote: During a recent upgrade of about a dozen packages, I saw the Cygwin setup window progress normally (deleting package xyz...), and then up popped a window that said: In-use files detected Unable to extract /etc/postinstall/bash.sh