Based on the idea that its a file locking problem, I ran "handle" from sysinternals, and it showed up as an open filehandle in an explorer.exe process. I terminated the process, and all is well.
I don't understand how it got into that state yet, but I'm closer. Thanks for the hints. Warren Young wrote: > > This is likely yet another example of why enabling file locking by > default is brain damaged, which is why *ix systems don't do it. > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/ls---rm-etc-return-%22no-such-file-or-directory%22-tf4245023.html#a12080525 Sent from the Cygwin Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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/