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Re: Problems with ssh-host-config and /var/run directory


Am 25.05.2017 um 21:24 schrieb Henning Peters:
Hi,

I switched from 32bit to 64 bis a week ago, moved "cygwin" to "cygwin32" and
reinstalled from scratch into a new "cygwin" directory.

I don't think that was a good strategy. Cygwin does use some registry entries pointing to absolute paths, i.e. you cannot just move a cygwin installation around and expect it to still work, just like that. That means your 32-bit Cygwin installation is now most likely quite broken, and I won't even speculate on the possible havoc running the orphaned 32-bit tools will cause in the 64-bit install now occupying their place.

Just installing the 64-bit version to a new, aptly named folder cygwin64, would have been both simpler, and more likely to work.


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