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. > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
