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Permission denied running programs in other directories
- From: Chris Bagwell <chris at cnpbagwell dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 18:42:00 -0600
- Subject: Permission denied running programs in other directories
Hello,
I am having problems running some development programs and could use
some help.
I have been using Cygwin successfully running Windows 98. Actually, I'm
running it under Linux using the program Win4Lin. This causes the
filesystem to appear a little differently then under real windows since
its not using direct-to-disk FAT drivers. I'm sure this is related to
part of the problem. I'm not sure but they may be treated as network
drives.
Somewhere after a cygwin upgrade I noticed that when I tried to compile
programs it would give me the following error:
gcc: installation problem, cannot exec
'/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/2.95.3-5/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/as.exe':
Permission denied
I am able to reproduce the same error if I type the follow from the bash
prompt:
/usr/i686-pc-cygwin/bin/as.exe
BASH: /usr/i686-pc-cygwin/bin/as.exe: Permission denied
It will run fine if I run it from within that directory:
cd /usr/i686-pc-cygwin/bin
as.exe
[starts accepting input until I type ctrl-d]
For some extra strange stuff, if I run "strace
/usr/i686-pc-cygwin/bin/as.exe" I get the following message:
strace.xe: error creating process /usr/i686-pc-cygwin/bin/as.exe, (error 2)
And finally, if I reinstall the binutil package using the setup program
then it starts working... By that I mean it works until I shut down
windows... When I restart it I will get the same behavior as described
above. Its as if the setup program is enabling some file or directory
permissions that are not setup upon bootup.
Any ideas?
Chris
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