Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/12/08/14:39:26
I am having the same problem. Please also see:
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-11/msg00742.html
$ mount
E:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts type system
(binmode)
E:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode)
E:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode)
E:\cygwin on / type system (binmode)
c: on /cygdrive/c type user (binmode,noumount)
e: on /cygdrive/e type user (binmode,noumount)
g: on /cygdrive/g type user (binmode,noumount)
and I do NOT have a /cygdrive directory
I am using XP Professional and I have tried all the things Gareth had
suggested(mkpasswd/mkgroup sync; windows sharing tab etc) but am still not
able to change the permissions on those two root directories despite being
the administrator. I even tried logging in the "Administrator" account,
same problem. I am on the 1116 snapshot
-rwx------+ 1 jakez None 1081698 Nov 16 03:23 cygwin1.dll
$ ls -dl /cygdrive/c /cygdrive/e /cygdrive/g
d--------- 12 ???????? ???????? 0 Dec 8 07:49 /cygdrive/c/
dr-xr-xr-x+ 35 jakez None 0 Dec 8 07:36 /cygdrive/e/
d--------- 8 ???????? ???????? 0 Nov 23 14:12 /cygdrive/g/
Note it is interesting because E is the drive where the cygwin
distribution is installed. This appears to be affecting only cygwin
both windows explorer and cmd.exe works fine.
Please help. Thanks.
jake
> D. N. Knisely wrote:
>
> >> I unmounted those mounts:
> >> $ mount
> >> C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts type system
> >> (binmo
> >> de)
> >> C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (textmode)
> >> C:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (textmode)
> >> C:\cygwin on / type system (textmode)
> >> c: on /cygdrive/c type user (textmode,noumount)
> >>
> >> No change.
> >>
> >> Am I supposed to have an actual directory entry for cygdrive? There is a
> >> directory there:
> >> ...
> >> $ ls -l cygdrive
> >> total 0
> >> d--------- 29 ???????? ???????? 0 Nov 24 07:09 c/
> >> $ ls -ld cygdrive
> >> dr-xr-xr-x 4 0 0 0 Dec 31 1969 cygdrive/
> >>
> >> It doesn't seem to make any different if I rename it to something else; I
> >> gather that /cygdrive is actually a virtual drive like /dev.
>
>
> That's right. In a standard installation you would not have a real
> directory named cygdrive in your Cygwin root, but I wouldn't have
> expected there to be a problem if you did have. [Just tried it
> on my system and I have no problem.]
>
> However, from the above, you do seem to have a permission/ownership
> problem. I'd recommend removing the real /cygdrive directory, and
> then repeating "ls -l /cygdrive" - you should see your windows C
> drive and it should have sensible ownership/protection - the
> same as you see with "ls -ld C:/".
>
> You don't, by any chance, have a "real" directory named C under
> your real /cygdrive? That may well confuse Cygwin.
>
> -- Cliff
>
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