At 04:10 PM 12/3/2001, Eric Hanchrow wrote: >I upgraded my system to cygwin 1.3.6-1. (I shut down all running >Cygwin apps first). Then, when I started bash, instead of grinding >away for a few seconds (processing my .bashrc, which is big), it >immediately printed > > bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create! > bash-2.05a$ > >I typed `mount', but it complained that there was no program named >`mount'. The PATH variable looked OK, so perhaps it had failed to >properly mount its directories. > >I re-ran setup, and reverted to the previous version (1.3.5), and now >everything works fine. > >What's odd is that I was able to do a clean install of 1.3.6-1, from >the same binaries, onto a different machine, and that worked fine. > >What should I do to investigate?
A good start would be to review the mail archives for today where this subject has already been discussed at least twice (reviewing the mail archives for an issue is *always* a good idea). Anyone that would like to investigate this issue and provide a patch for the case where "/" is the cygdrive prefix is more than welcome to do so. Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
