Revised: ls: reading directory .: No such file or directory

Monte Riding nerdnut@gmail.com
Tue Aug 1 16:15:00 GMT 2006


No, navigating to /cygdrive/c results in the same issue - and as you
can see below, navigating to 'c:' does work, and changes to the
/cygdrive/c directory.

mriding@l-mrider-i ~
$ cd /cygdrive/c

mriding@l-mrider-i /cygdrive/c
$ ls
ls: reading directory .: No such file or directory

mriding@l-mrider-i /cygdrive/c
$


thx :)
monte


Re: Revised: ls: reading directory .: No such file or directory
From: Andrew Schulman <schulman dot andrew at epamail dot epa dot gov>
To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 12:04:57 -0400
Subject: Re: Revised: ls: reading directory .: No such file or directory
References: <17370db50608010815ma1a27bfoac531286ad10d342@mail.gmail.com>

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> mriding@l-mrider-i ~
> $ cd c:
>
> mriding@l-mrider-i /cygdrive/c
> $ ls
> ls: reading directory .: No such file or directory

WAG:  if you run 'cd /cygdrive/c' instead of 'cd c:', does the problem go
away?

The shell obviously is interpreting c: as /cygdrive/c in your shell prompt,
but maybe it's storing c: instead of /cygdrive/c as the current directory,
and choking on that.


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