Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 09:49:39 +0300 From: Ville Herva To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Administrator lacking super-user privileges on cygwin installation Message-ID: <20030806064939.GD221723@niksula.cs.hut.fi> References: <20030805150743.GB221723@niksula.cs.hut.fi> <20030805175213.GC221723@niksula.cs.hut.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030805175213.GC221723@niksula.cs.hut.fi> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 08:52:13PM +0300, you [Ville Herva] wrote: > > > Make sure the SYSTEM user doesn't have any *user* mounts (by running > > "mount" from a SYSTEM-owned shell). > > Spot on. > > C: on / type system (textmode) (...) > Starting service as SYSTEM still fails: (...) > but I definetely got forward. Thanks. Yep, after re-fixing a couple of permission problems, I got the service running. The user mount was the essential culprit. Thanks! -- v -- v@iki.fi -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/