On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Todd Shoenfelt wrote: > I've recently installed Cygwin to my XP machine for > the first time. When I launch the bash window, I get: > > <snip> > mkdir: cannot create directory `/cygdrive/h': No such file or directory > Copying skeleton files. > These files are for the user to personalise their cygwin experience. > > These will never be overwritten. > > /usr/bin/install: cannot create directory `/cygdrive/h': No such file or > directory > /usr/bin/install: cannot create directory `/cygdrive/h': No such file or > directory > /usr/bin/install: cannot create directory `/cygdrive/h': No such file or > directory > bash: cd: /cygdrive/h: No such file or directory > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc/skel > </snip> > > It looks like Cygwin is trying to store some session data. I do end up > getting a functioning command line, but the 'h' directory isn't created. > Cygwin is installed here: C:/cygwin/cygdrive. I've done 'mkdir > C:/cygwin/cygdrive/h', but the error persists. How do I get these > messages to go away?
First, this is a general Cygwin issue, and has nothing to do with Cygwin/X. I'm redirecting this reply to the main Cygwin list -- please remove <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com> from further discussion. Note that the cygwin-xfree list adds an extra Reply-To, so you'll have to manually remove it if you get this message via that list. Whenever you first run the Cygwin shell as a new user, some skeleton files are copied into your home directory automatically. The home directory (or $HOME in Unix-speak) is determined according to the rules described at <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.home>. /cygdrive is a virtual directory, which is the parent directory for all Windows drive letters. IOW, even though "/" is "C:/cygwin", "/cygdrive/h" is NOT "C:/cygwin/cygdrive/h", it's "H:/". For some reason, Cygwin thinks your $HOME is /cygdrive/h (or "H:\"). If you do have the HOME environment variable set in Windows, that could explain your problem. If you don't have the "H:" drive, simply unset the HOME variable in the Windows environment -- it'll be set appropriately by Cygwin. If you do have the "H:" drive occasionally (e.g., it's a network drive), and some other program needs this setting of the HOME environment variable, you can edit /cygwin.bat to unset HOME before starting the Cygwin shell. HTH, 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! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/
