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Re: cygwin 1.7 fc-cache error: failed to write cache
Hi, can anyone help? Thanks in advance.
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Steven Woody <narkewoody@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I removed cygwin1.5 on both of my two computers, one is a laptop and
> another is a desktop, they are all Windows XP. ?I then installed
> cygwin 1.7 for them, the result is strange. ?The laptop seems okay,
> but the desktop, I tried re-install many times, always fail when I
> execute fa-cache on it, the error messages are:
>
> ...
> /cygdrive/c/Windows/Fonts: caching, new cache contents: 598 fonts, 0 dirs
> /cygdrive/c/Windows/Fonts: caching: failed to write cache
> ... (repeat for other font directories)
> ...
>
> But If I install cygwin1.5 on the desktop, it is always okay with fc-cache.
>
> What's wrong with it?
>
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>
> narke
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>
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