Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <3FC213EB.6020205@aonix.co.uk> Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 14:21:31 +0000 From: Cliff Hones Organization: Aonix Europe User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031013 Thunderbird/0.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Can't Read /cygdrive/c in snapshots from 1108 on (unknown windows error 122) X-Enigmail-Version: 0.81.7.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 -- 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/