From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18383 invoked by alias); 14 Jun 2012 04:20:24 -0000 Received: (qmail 18367 invoked by uid 22791); 14 Jun 2012 04:20:19 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mho-01-ewr.mailhop.org (HELO mho-01-ewr.mailhop.org) (204.13.248.71) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 04:20:07 +0000 Received: from pool-108-49-31-224.bstnma.fios.verizon.net ([108.49.31.224] helo=cgf.cx) by mho-01-ewr.mailhop.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Sf1XS-000FLp-DA for cygwin@cygwin.com; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 04:20:06 +0000 Received: from localhost (ednor.casa.cgf.cx [192.168.187.5]) by cgf.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 726C713C0C1 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 00:20:05 -0400 (EDT) X-Mail-Handler: MailHop Outbound by DynDNS X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse@dyndns.com (see http://www.dyndns.com/services/mailhop/outbound_abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: U2FsdGVkX1/kt4w9VTzVqZFJkGeZ2yQq Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 04:20:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: /bin and /lib mount points occasionally lost Message-ID: <20120614042005.GA5956@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <34007108.post@talk.nabble.com> <4FD9191B.8040200@etr-usa.com> <34009171.post@talk.nabble.com> <4FD93849.3040900@etr-usa.com> <34009433.post@talk.nabble.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <34009433.post@talk.nabble.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2012-06/txt/msg00269.txt.bz2 On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 06:21:13PM -0700, richw wrote: > > >Warren Young wrote: >> >> On 6/13/2012 5:32 PM, richw wrote: >>> >>> What was I doing? I rebooted the computer. >> >> You're being pedantic. I mean, what program(s) did you run before you >> noticed Cygwin stopped working, causing you to reboot to fix it? >> >> >I rebooted my computer because it was late and it was time >to go to bed. It was working fine before I turned it off, and it >didn't work when I rebooted in the morning. And the only thing that didn't >work was the mount points; "ls" (and almost everything else) >would fail, which I abbreviated to "cygwin didn't work". Two >simple mount commands fixed that. >Based upon the symptoms, I doubt that cygwin1.dll problems are >to blame, unless there's something in all of the start-up stuff >that uses a rogue copy. > >To be complete, I'll go around and delete all of the copies. >If the problem recurs in a week or a month, I'll come back here! >If it doesn't, thanks for your help. Also make sure that you Cygwin is up-to-date. According to cygcheck, you're running DLL version 1.7.11. The current version is 1.7.15. -- 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