On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha <at> cs.nyu.edu> writes: > > > *THAT'S IT*. That's your problem right here. Basically, setup will not > > change an existing /usr/bin mount, if there is one, and it will install > > things into /usr/bin, not /bin, so all of the new apps just went to > > wherever /usr/bin pointed to. Your best bet would probably be to remove > > the "HKLM/SOFTWARE/Cygnus Solutions" key altogether, remove "D:\cygwin", > > and reinstall from scratch (you may also want to remove > > "c:\cygnus\cygwin-b20\H-i586-cygwin32", as it now contains the new Cygwin > > executables and is probably unusable). > > > > > That's not good if the installer is mixing up old and new installations > > > from completely different paths... > > > > Good point. This is debatably a bug in the installer. It *will* check > > whether the root mount is different and change the others accordingly, but > > it will not touch the /usr/bin and /usr/lib mounts if they point outside > > of the root. Perhaps it should at least issue a warning if this is the > > case (as most of the Cygwin software relies on /usr/bin = /bin). In the > > meantime, perhaps the installation guide should mention that if you had an > > old (really old) version of Cygwin on your machine, its mounts may confuse > > setup. > > Igor > > Ok, I've deleted the entire "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Cygnus Solutions" > registry tree, renamed "c:\cygnus\cygwin-b20\" to > "c:\cygnus-hidethis\cygwin-b20\", and tried to install again. > But, for some reason, it *still* went ahead and created the > directory "c:\cygnus\cygwin-b20\H-i586-cygwin32\bin", stuck > the bin files in there, and pointed the "/usr/bin" registry > key to that.
Umm, I should have mentioned the user mounts (stored under "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions"). Those may have been wrong too... Weird. > I manually copied that bin directory to "D:/cygwin/bin" and > changed the registry entry to point to that and now I can > get into Cygwin and a shell. One thing to have looked at is the "How do I uninstall all of Cygwin" FAQ entry: <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_2.html#SEC19>. > However, now the problem I have is that when I'm in that shell, > I can't get to /cygdrive/c or /cygdrive/c. An ls on the root > directory reveals "bin cygwin.bat cygwin.ico etc home lib > usr var", but not "cygdrive". /cygdrive is a virtual filesystem (just like /proc and /dev). You can create a /cygdrive directory if you want to, for tab completion and the like. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- 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/
