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Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 11:39:04 +0200
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Alain_M=E9rigot?= <am AT ief DOT u-psud DOT fr>
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Subject: Re: ls: /: No such file or directory   What can I do?
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Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Apr 2003, Alain Mérigot wrote:
> 
> 
>>When I do ls /, I get the message
>>ls: /: No such file or directory
>>(I have the same behavior with /etc).
>>Other pathes are OK (including /cygdrive/x/...
>>
>>I use cygwin for years and never got such a problem. Before it happened, I
>>do not remember to have done a specifically dangerous action.
>>Anyway, as my path is set in autoexec.bat (with windows pathes), most
>>utilities are still working. Only the ones that requires an access to
>>specific files in /usr, /etc ... are broken (latex for instance). So this
>>problem may be here for a couple of days.
>>
>>I have checked the configuration with regedit and it seems correct :
>>in /HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/software/Cygnus/cygwin/mounts v2/'/', I have flas set
>>to 0x0a and native to \cygdrive\e\\cygwin.
>>
>>So, any idea on waht can be done?
>>
>>Many thanks in advance,
>>Alain Mérigot
> 
> 
> Alain,
> 
> Checking the mount settings in the registry is non-portable, the mounts
> will not be stored there forever.  Please use "cygcheck -svr" to get
> system configuration.  Attaching the output to your message, as per
> <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>, might also be a good idea.
> 
> Aside from that, looks like you're missing the "/" mount (the output of
> "cygcheck -svr" will confirm or deny my guess).  Did you change users?
> Did you upgrade any Cygwin packages recently?
> 	Igor

Here is the output of  cygcheck -svr  :

Cygwin Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics
Current System Time: Sun Apr 27 11:19:50 2003

Windows 98 SE Ver 4.10 Build 2222

Path:   .
         \cygdrive\e\cygwin\bin
         c:\WINDOWS
         c:\WINDOWS\COMMAND
         .
         c:\WINDOWS
         e:\CYGWIN\BIN\
         c:\WINDOWS\COMMAND
         c:\PHP4
         g:\MAX5\BACKBURNER2\
         c:\PROGRAM FILES\FICHIERS COMMUNS\AUTODESK SHARED\
         e:\PROGRAM FILES\GS\GS7.05\BIN
         c:\php\
         e:\xemacs\bin\i686-pc-cygwin
         e:\bin
         .
`id' program not found

and here is the output of id

uid=400(ehio) gid=401(mkpasswd) groups=401(mkpasswd)

and finally, the output of mount
\cygdrive\e\cygwin\etc on /etc type system (binmode)
\cygdrive\e\cygwin on / type system (binmode)
c: on /cygdrive/c type user (binmode,noumount)
d: on /cygdrive/d type user (binmode,noumount)
e: on /cygdrive/e type user (binmode,noumount)
f: on /cygdrive/f type user (binmode,noumount)
g: on /cygdrive/g type user (binmode,noumount)
h: on /cygdrive/h type user (binmode,noumount)
i: on /cygdrive/i type user (binmode,noumount)
j: on /cygdrive/j type user (binmode,noumount)

I think effectively that I am missing the '/' mount. But what is strange is 
that ls / does not work, while mount thinks that / is mounted on 
/cygdrive/e/cygwin and that I can without problem ls /cygdrive/e/cygwin



Concerning recent update, I have done a (regular) update some days ago and I 
did not notice any problem after that (but as I said most utilities are 
working and I do not reboot everyday). I do not remenber which packages were 
updated, I just let setup choose...

The problem first appeared in latex as the format (located in /usr/...) 
could not be found. I then tried to do an update (reinstallation of 
tetex-bin) after I discovered the problem. But the update hanged for a long 
time -- I can now understand why!. It was probably trying to go to 
/something --  and I killed it.

After that, I rebooted, created a new user, etc until I discovered the mount 
problem. But all was done after the problem first happened.

Hope this helps.

Alain Mérigot


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