This might be the same issue as a couple of previous unresolved reports with the same error message, but I'm not sure, so here's a new thread.
Steps to reproduce: - On Windows 7, install 64-bit Cygwin into C:\cygwin, and let it create a desktop shortcut. - Edit /etc/fstab to change the cygdrive prefix to /. - Double click 'Cygwin64 Terminal' desktop shortcut. Result: a bunch of errors before the bash prompt. shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: Bad file descriptor job-working-directory: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory job-working-directory: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory job-working-directory: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory chdir: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No error The errors remain if the shortcut target is changed from invoking mintty to invoking bash directly: 'C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -l'. The errors go away if 'C:\cygwin\bin' is put into the shortcut's otherwise empty 'Start In' field. (But they stay if 'C:\' is put there instead.) They also go away if the cygdrive prefix is changed to anything but the root directory. I couldn't reproduce the issue with a 32-bit install. Regards, Andy -- 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
