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 From: "Dave Korn" To: Subject: RE: strange install problems Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 16:06:05 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <20040401143147.30955.qmail@web11701.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Apr 2004 15:06:05.0703 (UTC) FILETIME=[DB053170:01C417FA] > -----Original Message----- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Erik Weibust > Sent: 01 April 2004 15:32 > I'm not sure what or why it's trying to do with an h: > drive. I have a local c and d drive, and I have i and > s network drives, and a z samba mount. I did have an > h drive in the past, but with the "uninstall" I > performed I don't know why it would be a problem now. > Any ideas? Because it's still referred to in an environment variable somewhere? > Also, I didn't see a /home/$USER ? Could this be > because of the problems I listed above? It couldn't create the /etc/group or /etc/passwd files, because for some reason it was trying to do so on the non-existent H drive; this in turn means that cygwin's notion of what your username and/or group are must be in a mess; it also suggests that you've got an environment variable which cygwin is importing and trying to use to set as your home directory or something. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- 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/