Odd mount and path problem

[Larry V. Streepy, Jr.]

Ok, I've spent days trying to work around this problem and more days 
searching the web for solutions, but to no avail.

The basic problem is that I 'cd' to a directory and programs in my path, 
like 'ls' stop working with a "bash: /bin/ls: No such file or directory" 
error message.

The specifics:

Here's the mount table:

d:\cygwin\home on /home type system (binmode)
\cygwin\sbin on /sbin type system (binmode)
\cygwin\bin on /bin type system (binmode)
\cygwin\etc on /etc type system (binmode)
\cygwin\lib on /lib type system (binmode)
\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode)
\cygwin\tmp on /tmp type system (binmode)
\cygwin\usr on /usr type system (binmode)
\cygwin\var on /var type system (binmode)
C: on /c type system (binmode)
D: on / type system (binmode)
u: on /cygdrive/u type system (binmode,noumount)

Here's my PATH:

/usr/bin:/bin:D:/LE/cyberle/tools/Jikes:/Tools/bin:
/JDK1.3/bin:/c/WINDOWS/system32:/c/WINDOWS:
/c/Program Files/Microsoft SQL Server/80/Tools/Binn:/vslick/win:.


If I am anywhere on the D drive, like in / or /cygwin or anything other 
than /c, things work ok.  When I cd to /c, and type 'ls' I get this:

     bash: /bin/ls: No such file or directory

More fully, no commands from /bin will work any more.  It's as if the 
/bin directory is no longer available.  Fully qualifying the command 
works, sort of:

    /bin/ls         does not work
    /cygwin/bin/ls  does work


If anyone has a solution or an idea to try, I'm open :-)


P.S. I am not using the normal installation settings where /cygwin is 
mounted as / since I have a lot of other directories at the top of my D 
drive that I want to access from within cygwin.

P.P.S: In case this will help, here's the initial output from cygcheck:

Cygwin Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics
Current System Time: Mon Jul 22 11:37:17 2002

Windows XP Professional Ver 5.1 Build 2600

Path:   \cygwin\usr\bin
         \cygwin\bin
         D
         D:\LE\cyberle\tools\Jikes
         D:\Tools\bin
         D:\JDK1.3\bin
         C:\WINDOWS\system32
         C:\WINDOWS
         C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\80\Tools\Binn
         D:\vslick\win
         .

SysDir: C:\WINDOWS\System32
WinDir: C:\WINDOWS

HOME = `D:\'
MAKE_MODE = `unix'
PWD = `/cygwin'
USER = `lstreepy'

Use `-r' to scan registry

c:  hd  NTFS    4998Mb  73% CP CS UN PA FC
d:  hd  NTFS   14071Mb  19% CP CS UN PA FC     Data
u:  net NTFS   17351Mb  96% CP CS UN PA FC
x:  cd           N/A    N/A

D:              /          system  binmode
\cygwin\bin     /bin       system  binmode
C:              /c         system  binmode
\cygwin\etc     /etc       system  binmode
d:\cygwin\home  /home      system  binmode
\cygwin\lib     /lib       system  binmode
\cygwin\sbin    /sbin      system  binmode
\cygwin\tmp     /tmp       system  binmode
\cygwin\usr     /usr       system  binmode
\cygwin\lib     /usr/lib   system  binmode
\cygwin\var     /var       system  binmode
.               /cygdrive  user    binmode,cygdrive


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