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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
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