X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 10:35:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: David LaFrance-Linden cc: cygwin@cygwin.com, david_ll@ladebug.zko.hp.com Subject: Re: Variation on: regular user, bash cannot find /tmp In-Reply-To: <000001c6d0aa$53a99c00$0c142918@TheMorningLight> Message-ID: References: <000001c6d0aa$53a99c00$0c142918@TheMorningLight> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-ID: Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, David LaFrance-Linden wrote: > I found a few similar problems in your mail archives, but I did not > quickly find the problem I'm having. Attached is cygcheck output as > requested. > > A few days ago, as a normal user on my MS Windows box, I went to > cygwin.com and ran setup.exe to install things, for "just me". > Everything seemed to go OK. When I ran the shortcut, it brought up a > bash. First time up it did some setup. Things worked. > > Then I decided to install it for everyone. I deleted all the cygwin > stuff I could find from my directories. Then, from an Admin account, I > went to cygwin.com again, ran setup.exe again, and chose "For everyone" > and put things under c:\cygwin. > > Again, everything seemed to go OK. But when I, as the original user, > try the newly installed shortcut on my desktop, I get > > bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create! > bash-3.1$ > > complaint. The other reports I found seem to indicate it gets further > than I get. You probably installed into a different directory for that user, and you have stale user mounts. Unfortunately, you have not attached the output of "cygcheck -svr" from the failing user (which you could have gotten via "cd c:\cygwin\bin; .\cygcheck -svr" from a command prompt). Just unmount all user mounts as the problem user: "cd c:\cygwin\bin; .\umount -U". HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- 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/