Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <017601c2bce1$2678a720$305886d9@webdev> From: "Elfyn McBratney" To: "cygwin" , "Lawlor, Jonathan" Cc: References: <921978234DB4D311AAB500805FE6C67902D64BDD@eac-exch1.eac.ea.com> Subject: Re: "Cannot create a file when that file already exists" installation problem Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 21:57:46 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Redirecting this to the correct list. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lawlor, Jonathan" To: Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 9:47 PM Subject: "Cannot create a file when that file already exists" installation problem > Hello, > > I'm trying to upgrade my Cygwin install to the newest version > Using setup.exe from http://www.cygwin.com. No matter what I do, > what I choose to install, where the local packages go to etc, > I get the following error message: > Mount <- that is what is in the title of the message box > Cannot create a file when that file already exists. > OK > > When I click on OK, the installation process exists, and nothing > is installed. > > Note that sometimes the entire process is almost finished (the > total bar is about 99% full). > > Googling for "Cannot create a file when that file already exists" > reveals that that is some kind of Windows error (code #183), > but I have no idea which file is being created. > > Does anybody have any ideas what could be going on here? > > I do not want to blow away my current install. > > Thank you very much, > > Jonathan Lawlor > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/