I am (was) running cygwin under XP at work. It was installed a while back by IT. Everything gets done through IT. They are primarily windows people and they left out some important packages like man and others. So I asked them to reinstall. I can't install the missing packages myself, they have to download whatever I need, scan it for viruses, pack it somehow, then install it on my machine.
Long story short, when all planets were in alignment, I ran setup to do an installation from scratch (over my existing installation). Accidentally, I had a shell open (I run bash in rxvt). At some point the installer wanted to uninstall bash, it failed. I closed the shell and I told it to retry, but it kept failing so I pressed cancel. I ran setup again (several times) and at each time I would get an error that setup crashed, please inform Microsoft . I said no, but the installer would hang. Always when it was trying to uninstall bash. Cygwin did install properly on other co-workers' machines, so I imagine I caused the whole thing by having the shell open the first time. The question is what do I do now? I don't even know where to start. Is there a way to completely remove cygwin as if it was never there? Do I have to clean up some entries in the registry? Delete /cygdrive/c/cygwin? I'm a linux guy, I have no idea what to do in windows. I'd appreciate any suggestions. Thanks! -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/