RE: Cygwin 3.1.X Fatal Errors - add_item ("\??\C:", "/", ...) failed, errno 22

2020-01-14 Thread Ken Turner
Thanks to Marco for the advice, and special thanks to Henri for additional support. As noted on https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2020-01/msg00129.html, my problem was due to installing Cygwin in the drive root. I was forced to do this some years ago because of a third-party package that required Cy

Re: Cygwin 3.1.X Fatal Errors - add_item ("\??\C:", "/", ...) failed, errno 22

2020-01-13 Thread Ken Brown
[Redirecting to the Cygwin list.] On 1/13/2020 6:59 AM, Ken Turner wrote: > Dear Ken > > As you will see from https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2020-01/msg00111.html I > have > been having difficulty with installing Cygwin 3.1.X. It appears that it is no > longer possible to install Cygwin directly

Re: Cygwin 3.1.X Fatal Errors - add_item ("\??\C:", "/", ...) failed, errno 22

2020-01-12 Thread Marco Atzeri
Am 12.01.2020 um 14:47 schrieb Ken Turner: This is related to https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2020-01/msg00045.html. I have now tried the same update on two other systems. Cygwin 3.0.7-1 32-bit works fine on three different systems: one Windows 7 64-bit, two Windows 10 64-bit. However, Cygwin 3.1.1

Cygwin 3.1.X Fatal Errors - add_item ("\??\C:", "/", ...) failed, errno 22

2020-01-12 Thread Ken Turner
This is related to https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2020-01/msg00045.html. I have now tried the same update on two other systems. Cygwin 3.0.7-1 32-bit works fine on three different systems: one Windows 7 64-bit, two Windows 10 64-bit. However, Cygwin 3.1.1-1 and 3.2.1-1 fail to install cleanly on the