X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:reply-to:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=XyOm4rw09YisXetf 8dj8ODuy645ymPtlz0wsM5t23klg3C/BJ9lP7sgYq4pdJwq9WSOD3Ne6IdtaR3g6 mUBR7zmIrHbV4aErcHFcsFSqV/RQExtmc0DGW8TVNFZSkMgFQ2BUzmHQDgkyvsdf 7rGcdwJMUN5+yYZW4cjZzPAlRtg= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:reply-to:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=YO0itYLpzTWPZdUGHW5mV5 OJsC8=; b=jGkPV9YxyjqQgyTjMY3tMhMsq+TM9sGTxgZZPmqijC9t7SDC6lxLrL j5PczSXY3u2lJJk20bVmf3ASur+nZu228RTAYtUagj+bu9LQG4q4Sw3z/wG35lJe JnXKTgykz+w41jMrZBLbUMK6BzdOdRYOYLr8FEMB6Eb2g0b+MZBRI= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_05,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: vms173025pub.verizon.net Message-id: <532CB350.7070501@cygwin.com> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 17:46:56 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-to: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 MIME-version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: problem with mkdir //fileserver when opening cygwin terminal References: In-reply-to: Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit On 3/21/2014 5:06 PM, Leo Lagos wrote: > Hello, > > I've been having this problem after a while. It seems it appeared > after I removed the 32bits versions, and installed the 64bits one. > > Every time I open a terminal, I got this message: > > mkdir: cannot create directory `//fileserver': Read-only file system > //fileserver/public/llagos could not be created. > Setting HOME to /tmp. > > llagos AT T420-LLAGOS ~ > $ > > I have done some updates after that, latest today, but the problem > remains, so I think it's a bug in the sw, but something else, maybe > some garbage left from the 32bits version I used before. > > If not that, I don't know what could it be. > > Has anyone got any clue on this message and possible solution? > > cygwin version is: > $ uname -a > CYGWIN_NT-6.1 T420-LLAGOS 1.7.28(0.271/5/3) 2014-02-09 21:06 x86_64 Cygwin > > llagos AT T420-LLAGOS ~ > $ The best thing to do is file a complete problem report. You can find details on how to do that at the link below. > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html As a wild guess, I'm going to assume you have HOME set in your windows environment to this network directory. Remove that and I expect you'll get by this problem. -- Larry _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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