I am having the same problem. Please also see: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-11/msg00742.html
$ mount E:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts type system (binmode) E:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode) E:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode) E:\cygwin on / type system (binmode) c: on /cygdrive/c type user (binmode,noumount) e: on /cygdrive/e type user (binmode,noumount) g: on /cygdrive/g type user (binmode,noumount) and I do NOT have a /cygdrive directory I am using XP Professional and I have tried all the things Gareth had suggested(mkpasswd/mkgroup sync; windows sharing tab etc) but am still not able to change the permissions on those two root directories despite being the administrator. I even tried logging in the "Administrator" account, same problem. I am on the 1116 snapshot -rwx------+ 1 jakez None 1081698 Nov 16 03:23 cygwin1.dll $ ls -dl /cygdrive/c /cygdrive/e /cygdrive/g d--------- 12 ???????? ???????? 0 Dec 8 07:49 /cygdrive/c/ dr-xr-xr-x+ 35 jakez None 0 Dec 8 07:36 /cygdrive/e/ d--------- 8 ???????? ???????? 0 Nov 23 14:12 /cygdrive/g/ Note it is interesting because E is the drive where the cygwin distribution is installed. This appears to be affecting only cygwin both windows explorer and cmd.exe works fine. Please help. Thanks. jake > D. N. Knisely wrote: > > >> I unmounted those mounts: > >> $ mount > >> C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts type system > >> (binmo > >> de) > >> C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (textmode) > >> C:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (textmode) > >> C:\cygwin on / type system (textmode) > >> c: on /cygdrive/c type user (textmode,noumount) > >> > >> No change. > >> > >> Am I supposed to have an actual directory entry for cygdrive? There is a > >> directory there: > >> ... > >> $ ls -l cygdrive > >> total 0 > >> d--------- 29 ???????? ???????? 0 Nov 24 07:09 c/ > >> $ ls -ld cygdrive > >> dr-xr-xr-x 4 0 0 0 Dec 31 1969 cygdrive/ > >> > >> It doesn't seem to make any different if I rename it to something else; I > >> gather that /cygdrive is actually a virtual drive like /dev. > > > That's right. In a standard installation you would not have a real > directory named cygdrive in your Cygwin root, but I wouldn't have > expected there to be a problem if you did have. [Just tried it > on my system and I have no problem.] > > However, from the above, you do seem to have a permission/ownership > problem. I'd recommend removing the real /cygdrive directory, and > then repeating "ls -l /cygdrive" - you should see your windows C > drive and it should have sensible ownership/protection - the > same as you see with "ls -ld C:/". > > You don't, by any chance, have a "real" directory named C under > your real /cygdrive? That may well confuse Cygwin. > > -- Cliff > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
