delorie.com/archives/browse.cgi | search |
X-Recipient: | archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com |
DomainKey-Signature: | a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id |
:list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post | |
:list-help:sender:mime-version:content-type | |
:content-transfer-encoding:message-id:date:to:subject | |
:in-reply-to:references:from; q=dns; s=default; b=AgReCRqQNxwR6P | |
mUInT9Zx4IJ26S5VKcf3pc0ZJHWpVpb70vKd5MAncXF505d0HChhKMeM7FtLkoTp | |
71R4TR0XcKTKM68bXRhZkaMft+w0YNvpT/ZTlFXE9JZ4hvgZVpCCfKMjPXoAOGsZ | |
2vXQ2LOPG9J7sjCSpNsyAjsg9eQoI= | |
DKIM-Signature: | v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id |
:list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post | |
:list-help:sender:mime-version:content-type | |
:content-transfer-encoding:message-id:date:to:subject | |
:in-reply-to:references:from; s=default; bh=mj5NemNVeA78Ltzd9exy | |
X62c8eE=; b=pAjx1mIpno2DHI7lCvhM7DeppdFEw0kMNQZkeeL2ZE9VUoSM3vqW | |
JmfM4gNLKxx+gWizmhlw/e8p+QosCde/FzprRRXdOik8+dzWqF9wb4Wtt/Y3Nbe0 | |
yS9tIoUC5XjfDmkfPyxl5bqwbsJCVhqao83ihI0Qk3oIzC3t88n7tYc= | |
Mailing-List: | contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm |
List-Id: | <cygwin.cygwin.com> |
List-Subscribe: | <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com> |
List-Archive: | <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/> |
List-Post: | <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> |
List-Help: | <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs> |
Sender: | cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com |
Mail-Followup-To: | cygwin AT cygwin DOT com |
Delivered-To: | mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com |
Authentication-Results: | sourceware.org; auth=none |
X-Spam-SWARE-Status: | No, score=-0.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_40,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=Home, HX-Languages-Length:1925, desktop, Desktop |
X-HELO: | p3plsmtpa07-08.prod.phx3.secureserver.net |
X-Sender: | inbox AT kosowsky DOT org |
MIME-Version: | 1.0 |
Message-ID: | <23910.42455.722565.268415@consult.pretender> |
Date: | Wed, 28 Aug 2019 12:03:35 -0400 |
To: | cygwin AT cygwin DOT com |
Subject: | Re: Home directory not accessible but really there... |
In-Reply-To: | <23909.35055.868804.891225@consult.pretender> |
References: | <23909 DOT 35055 DOT 868804 DOT 891225 AT consult DOT pretender> |
From: | cygwin AT kosowsky DOT org |
X-IsSubscribed: | yes |
Silly me -- problem was due to a typo in an old (and forgotten) fstab.d file. Never mind. Sorry for the troubles... "" wrote at about 15:47:59 -0400 on Tuesday, August 27, 2019: > In summary: > 1. Home directory is not accessible via: 'cd <return>' or 'cd ~' (it > takes me to /tmp) and 'ls -al /home' shows my home directory as > having corrupted permissions, UID and GID (all are ???) > > 2. Home directory is accessible and shows proper perms/UID/GID when I > go there with the full path from /cygdrive/c > > Specifically, > > After installing cygwin (using --noadmin flag), rebooting, and > launching a cygwin shell, I get the message: > mkdir: cannot create directory '/home/myname': No such file or directory > /home/myname could not be created. > Setting HOME to /tmp > > Then, if I go to /home and type: > #ls -al > ls: cannot access 'myname': No such file or directory > total 4 > drwxrwxrwt+ 1 myname somegroup(513) 0 Aug 27 15:35 . > drwx------+ 1 myname somegroup(513) 0 Aug 25 17:55 .. > d?????????? ? ? ? ? ? myname > > And, indeed from there, I can't ls/cd into the 'myname' home directory > - nor can I change the perms or uid/gid. > > HOWEVER, if I go manually to the home directory using the full path > relative to C:, everything seems fine. > > #cd /cygdrive/c/Users/myname/Desktop/cygwin/home > #ls -al > drwxrwxrwt+ 1 myname somegroup(513) 0 Aug 27 15:35 . > drwx------+ 1 myname somegroup(513) 0 Aug 25 17:55 .. > drwxr-xr-x+ 1 myname somegroup(513) 0 Aug 27 14:55 myname > > And I can then ls/cd into the intact 'myname' home directory. > > Note I don't have admin permission on this machine so I used > 'cygwin-setup --no-admin' to install Cygwin. > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
webmaster | delorie software privacy |
Copyright © 2019 by DJ Delorie | Updated Jul 2019 |