Vanishing mounts

Earnie Boyd earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
Thu Sep 30 23:42:00 GMT 1999


--- pof@uvic.ca wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've been noticing for some time now that mounts seem
> > to be spontaneously unmounting themselves.  There doesn't
> > seem to be any rhyme or reason to when this event occurs.
> > Maybe after rebooting, maybe not, etc.  I've noticed this
> > ever since updating to b20.1 last January.  It happens on
> > NT v4.0 sp3&sp4 and win95 boxes as well.  Both I and several
> > friends who use this release have all independently noticed
> > this behavior.  I guess under cygwin, this is akin to a
> > registry entry spontaneously disappearing.
> 
> I have a similar problem: my binary mounts will spontaneously 
> become text mounts.  I'm pretty sure that this problem 
> plagued me on earlier releases too.  It has become
> annoying enough that I finally kluged my rclock (from the
> rxvt package) to check my mounts every 10 minutes (instead
> of checking my mail) and signal an alarm if they are 
> text rather than binary.
> 
> I would welcome a "real" solution the the problem...

Hmm. I wonder if you have anything in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus
Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\b15.0\mounts registry entries?  This was meant to be
a default which would be setup by Admin and provide a new user with default
mounts.  I remember this happened to me and clearing the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
registry stopped the event from occuring.
===
Earnie Boyd < mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com >

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