Mail Archives: cygwin/2000/09/05/09:00:16
It sounds to me as if Richard is having a problem with having more than one
cygwin1.dll in his path. Older versions of Cygwin would have behaved like
this. What led me to this conclusion was the \\.\a: and \\.\b: mounts which
are not mounted by default anymore.
Cheers,
Earnie.
--- Corinna Vinschen <corinna AT vinschen DOT de> wrote:
> Richard,
>
> search for a registry key
>
> HKEY_USERS/.DEFAULT./Software/Cygnus Solutions/Cygwin/mount v2
>
> Erase it. Then you shouldn't see those mount points anymore.
>
> Corinna
>
> Richard Stanton wrote:
> >
> > This is odd. When I run "net start inetd", all my old mappings come back,
> > even if I've previously deleted them!
> >
> > For example,
> >
> > c:\4nt>mount
> > Device Directory Type Flags
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > \\.\tape1: /dev/st1 user textmode
> > \\.\a: /dev/fd0 user textmode
> > \\.\b: /dev/fd1 user textmode
> > c: / user textmode
> > c: / system textmode
> >
> > OK. Now delete the user "/" mount:
> >
> > c:\4nt>umount /
> > umount: /: No such file or directory
> >
> > Oops. That didn't work (and I have no idea why). However, there's a way to
> > do it. Just redo the mount:
> >
> > c:\4nt>mount -f c: /
> >
> > c:\4nt>umount /
> >
> > c:\4nt>mount
> > Device Directory Type Flags
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > \\.\tape1: /dev/st1 user textmode
> > \\.\a: /dev/fd0 user textmode
> > \\.\b: /dev/fd1 user textmode
> > c: / system textmode
> >
> > Yup. the mount has gone.
> >
> > Now stop and restart inetd:
> >
> > c:\4nt>net stop inetd
> > The CYGWIN inetd service is stopping.
> > The CYGWIN inetd service was stopped successfully.
> >
> > c:\4nt>net start inetd
> > The CYGWIN inetd service is starting.
> > The CYGWIN inetd service was started successfully.
> >
> > and see what mounts exist:
> >
> > c:\4nt>mount
> > Device Directory Type Flags
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > \\.\tape1: /dev/st1 user textmode
> > \\.\a: /dev/fd0 user textmode
> > \\.\b: /dev/fd1 user textmode
> > c: / user textmode
> > c: / system textmode
> >
> > It's back again! The same happens for all the user mounts. I have no idea
> > what's going on!
> >
> > Richard Stanton
> >
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