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Re: Home directory not accessible but really there...
- From: cygwin at kosowsky dot org
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 12:03:35 -0400
- Subject: Re: Home directory not accessible but really there...
- References: <23909.35055.868804.891225@consult.pretender>
Silly me -- problem was due to a typo in an old (and forgotten)
fstab.d file.
Never mind. Sorry for the troubles...
"" wrote at about 15:47:59 -0400 on Tuesday, August 27, 2019:
> In summary:
> 1. Home directory is not accessible via: 'cd <return>' or 'cd ~' (it
> takes me to /tmp) and 'ls -al /home' shows my home directory as
> having corrupted permissions, UID and GID (all are ???)
>
> 2. Home directory is accessible and shows proper perms/UID/GID when I
> go there with the full path from /cygdrive/c
>
> Specifically,
>
> After installing cygwin (using --noadmin flag), rebooting, and
> launching a cygwin shell, I get the message:
> mkdir: cannot create directory '/home/myname': No such file or directory
> /home/myname could not be created.
> Setting HOME to /tmp
>
> Then, if I go to /home and type:
> #ls -al
> ls: cannot access 'myname': No such file or directory
> total 4
> drwxrwxrwt+ 1 myname somegroup(513) 0 Aug 27 15:35 .
> drwx------+ 1 myname somegroup(513) 0 Aug 25 17:55 ..
> d?????????? ? ? ? ? ? myname
>
> And, indeed from there, I can't ls/cd into the 'myname' home directory
> - nor can I change the perms or uid/gid.
>
> HOWEVER, if I go manually to the home directory using the full path
> relative to C:, everything seems fine.
>
> #cd /cygdrive/c/Users/myname/Desktop/cygwin/home
> #ls -al
> drwxrwxrwt+ 1 myname somegroup(513) 0 Aug 27 15:35 .
> drwx------+ 1 myname somegroup(513) 0 Aug 25 17:55 ..
> drwxr-xr-x+ 1 myname somegroup(513) 0 Aug 27 14:55 myname
>
> And I can then ls/cd into the intact 'myname' home directory.
>
> Note I don't have admin permission on this machine so I used
> 'cygwin-setup --no-admin' to install Cygwin.
>
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