X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Mail-Handler: MailHop Outbound by DynDNS X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse AT dyndns DOT com (see http://www.dyndns.com/services/mailhop/outbound_abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: U2FsdGVkX1/kt4w9VTzVqZFJkGeZ2yQq Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 00:20:05 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: /bin and /lib mount points occasionally lost Message-ID: <20120614042005.GA5956@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <34007108 DOT post AT talk DOT nabble DOT com> <4FD9191B DOT 8040200 AT etr-usa DOT com> <34009171 DOT post AT talk DOT nabble DOT com> <4FD93849 DOT 3040900 AT etr-usa DOT com> <34009433 DOT post AT talk DOT nabble DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <34009433.post@talk.nabble.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 06:21:13PM -0700, richw wrote: > > >Warren Young wrote: >> >> On 6/13/2012 5:32 PM, richw wrote: >>> >>> What was I doing? I rebooted the computer. >> >> You're being pedantic. I mean, what program(s) did you run before you >> noticed Cygwin stopped working, causing you to reboot to fix it? >> >> >I rebooted my computer because it was late and it was time >to go to bed. It was working fine before I turned it off, and it >didn't work when I rebooted in the morning. And the only thing that didn't >work was the mount points; "ls" (and almost everything else) >would fail, which I abbreviated to "cygwin didn't work". Two >simple mount commands fixed that. >Based upon the symptoms, I doubt that cygwin1.dll problems are >to blame, unless there's something in all of the start-up stuff >that uses a rogue copy. > >To be complete, I'll go around and delete all of the copies. >If the problem recurs in a week or a month, I'll come back here! >If it doesn't, thanks for your help. Also make sure that you Cygwin is up-to-date. According to cygcheck, you're running DLL version 1.7.11. The current version is 1.7.15. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple