bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!

bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!

[ROUWEZ Stephane]

> Hi,
> 
> I have installed Cygwin on WinNT4 SP6. When I'm connected with user 'XY'
> and I start Cygwin, It gives to me :
> 
> bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!
> bash: /etc/profile: no medium
> bash: /.bash_profile: no medium
> bash-2.05$
> 
> and I can't do anything. /tmp exist ! Can anybody help me ?
> 
> Thanks
> Stephane
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Re: bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 07:53:05AM +0100, ROUWEZ Stephane wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have installed Cygwin on WinNT4 SP6. When I'm connected with user 'XY'
> > and I start Cygwin, It gives to me :
> > 
> > bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!
> > bash: /etc/profile: no medium
> > bash: /.bash_profile: no medium
> > bash-2.05$
> > 
> > and I can't do anything. /tmp exist ! Can anybody help me ?

Setup gives you the choice to install "for me" or "for all" at one
point.  If you've choosen "for me" the Cygwin mount points aren't
visible for any other user.  Login as the user which installed
Cygwin and change all mount points to system mount points using
the `mount' command.  mount --help will give you a clue.

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Re: bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!

[vipin aravind]

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nice  info,  I was  wondering  what it  was  for.
vipin
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Subject: Re: bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!


> On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 07:53:05AM +0100, ROUWEZ Stephane wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have installed Cygwin on WinNT4 SP6. When I'm connected with user
'XY'
> > > and I start Cygwin, It gives to me :
> > >
> > > bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!
> > > bash: /etc/profile: no medium
> > > bash: /.bash_profile: no medium
> > > bash-2.05$
> > >
> > > and I can't do anything. /tmp exist ! Can anybody help me ?
>
> Setup gives you the choice to install "for me" or "for all" at one
> point.  If you've choosen "for me" the Cygwin mount points aren't
> visible for any other user.  Login as the user which installed
> Cygwin and change all mount points to system mount points using
> the `mount' command.  mount --help will give you a clue.
>
> Corinna
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Re: bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 03:31:38PM +0530, vipin aravind wrote:
> nice  info,  I was  wondering  what it  was  for.
> vipin

The difference is just where the mount points are stored.
In HKEY_CURRENT_USER (for me) or in HKEY_LOCAL_SYSTEM (for all).

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Re: bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 03:31:38PM +0530, vipin aravind wrote:
> nice  info,  I was  wondering  what it  was  for.
> vipin

The difference is just where the mount points are stored.
In HKEY_CURRENT_USER (for me) or in HKEY_LOCAL_SYSTEM (for all).

Corinna

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Re: bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!

[vipin aravind]

nice  info,  I was  wondering  what it  was  for.
vipin
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To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
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Subject: Re: bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!


> On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 07:53:05AM +0100, ROUWEZ Stephane wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have installed Cygwin on WinNT4 SP6. When I'm connected with user
'XY'
> > > and I start Cygwin, It gives to me :
> > >
> > > bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!
> > > bash: /etc/profile: no medium
> > > bash: /.bash_profile: no medium
> > > bash-2.05$
> > >
> > > and I can't do anything. /tmp exist ! Can anybody help me ?
>
> Setup gives you the choice to install "for me" or "for all" at one
> point.  If you've choosen "for me" the Cygwin mount points aren't
> visible for any other user.  Login as the user which installed
> Cygwin and change all mount points to system mount points using
> the `mount' command.  mount --help will give you a clue.
>
> Corinna
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bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!

[ROUWEZ Stephane]

I have reinstalled with "for all" and I have the same error.

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Objet : Re: bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!


On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 07:53:05AM +0100, ROUWEZ Stephane wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have installed Cygwin on WinNT4 SP6. When I'm connected with user 'XY'
> > and I start Cygwin, It gives to me :
> > 
> > bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!
> > bash: /etc/profile: no medium
> > bash: /.bash_profile: no medium
> > bash-2.05$
> > 
> > and I can't do anything. /tmp exist ! Can anybody help me ?

Setup gives you the choice to install "for me" or "for all" at one
point.  If you've choosen "for me" the Cygwin mount points aren't
visible for any other user.  Login as the user which installed
Cygwin and change all mount points to system mount points using
the `mount' command.  mount --help will give you a clue.

Corinna

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bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!

[ROUWEZ Stephane]

I have reinstalled with "for all" and I have the same error.

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Objet : Re: bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!


On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 07:53:05AM +0100, ROUWEZ Stephane wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have installed Cygwin on WinNT4 SP6. When I'm connected with user 'XY'
> > and I start Cygwin, It gives to me :
> > 
> > bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!
> > bash: /etc/profile: no medium
> > bash: /.bash_profile: no medium
> > bash-2.05$
> > 
> > and I can't do anything. /tmp exist ! Can anybody help me ?

Setup gives you the choice to install "for me" or "for all" at one
point.  If you've choosen "for me" the Cygwin mount points aren't
visible for any other user.  Login as the user which installed
Cygwin and change all mount points to system mount points using
the `mount' command.  mount --help will give you a clue.

Corinna

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RE: bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!

[ROUWEZ Stephane]

Hi,

ok, with the first line, /tmp no problem, rights are set with 'regedit'
because 'mount' makes no change. Is it the only change to do ?
But "bash: /etc/profile: no medium", what does it means?

Stephane

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Objet : Re: bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!


On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 07:53:05AM +0100, ROUWEZ Stephane wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have installed Cygwin on WinNT4 SP6. When I'm connected with user 'XY'
> > and I start Cygwin, It gives to me :
> > 
> > bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!
> > bash: /etc/profile: no medium
> > bash: /.bash_profile: no medium
> > bash-2.05$
> > 
> > and I can't do anything. /tmp exist ! Can anybody help me ?

Setup gives you the choice to install "for me" or "for all" at one
point.  If you've choosen "for me" the Cygwin mount points aren't
visible for any other user.  Login as the user which installed
Cygwin and change all mount points to system mount points using
the `mount' command.  mount --help will give you a clue.

Corinna

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RE: bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!

[ROUWEZ Stephane]

Hi,

ok, with the first line, /tmp no problem, rights are set with 'regedit'
because 'mount' makes no change. Is it the only change to do ?
But "bash: /etc/profile: no medium", what does it means?

Stephane

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Objet : Re: bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!


On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 07:53:05AM +0100, ROUWEZ Stephane wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have installed Cygwin on WinNT4 SP6. When I'm connected with user 'XY'
> > and I start Cygwin, It gives to me :
> > 
> > bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!
> > bash: /etc/profile: no medium
> > bash: /.bash_profile: no medium
> > bash-2.05$
> > 
> > and I can't do anything. /tmp exist ! Can anybody help me ?

Setup gives you the choice to install "for me" or "for all" at one
point.  If you've choosen "for me" the Cygwin mount points aren't
visible for any other user.  Login as the user which installed
Cygwin and change all mount points to system mount points using
the `mount' command.  mount --help will give you a clue.

Corinna

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RE: bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!

[ROUWEZ Stephane]

all the mount points are 'System' ans I've reinstalled with 'for all'
option. 

mount gives:
C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode)
C:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode)
C:\cygwin on / type system (binmode)
c: on /cygdrive/c type user (binmode,noumount)
d: on /cygdrive/d type user (binmode,noumount)

Thanks
Stephane

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On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 07:53:05AM +0100, ROUWEZ Stephane wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have installed Cygwin on WinNT4 SP6. When I'm connected with user 'XY'
> > and I start Cygwin, It gives to me :
> > 
> > bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!
> > bash: /etc/profile: no medium
> > bash: /.bash_profile: no medium
> > bash-2.05$
> > 
> > and I can't do anything. /tmp exist ! Can anybody help me ?

Setup gives you the choice to install "for me" or "for all" at one
point.  If you've choosen "for me" the Cygwin mount points aren't
visible for any other user.  Login as the user which installed
Cygwin and change all mount points to system mount points using
the `mount' command.  mount --help will give you a clue.

Corinna

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RE: bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!

[ROUWEZ Stephane]

all the mount points are 'System' ans I've reinstalled with 'for all'
option. 

mount gives:
C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode)
C:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode)
C:\cygwin on / type system (binmode)
c: on /cygdrive/c type user (binmode,noumount)
d: on /cygdrive/d type user (binmode,noumount)

Thanks
Stephane

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On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 07:53:05AM +0100, ROUWEZ Stephane wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have installed Cygwin on WinNT4 SP6. When I'm connected with user 'XY'
> > and I start Cygwin, It gives to me :
> > 
> > bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!
> > bash: /etc/profile: no medium
> > bash: /.bash_profile: no medium
> > bash-2.05$
> > 
> > and I can't do anything. /tmp exist ! Can anybody help me ?

Setup gives you the choice to install "for me" or "for all" at one
point.  If you've choosen "for me" the Cygwin mount points aren't
visible for any other user.  Login as the user which installed
Cygwin and change all mount points to system mount points using
the `mount' command.  mount --help will give you a clue.

Corinna

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Re: bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!

[João Gonçalves]

I am trying to start cygwin and I get this error message.
I understand, from what I read, that this error is because I am using
a different user. And that's true, I am using a different user, but I
also lost the old user, because I installed windows again!
Is to mount cygwin in my current user withou going to the old one? Or
do I have to install cygwin again?

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Re: bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

João Gonçalves wrote:
> I am trying to start cygwin and I get this error message.
> I understand, from what I read, that this error is because I am using
> a different user. And that's true, I am using a different user, but I
> also lost the old user, because I installed windows again!
> Is to mount cygwin in my current user withou going to the old one? Or
> do I have to install cygwin again?


You can mount '/tmp' to anywhere you like.  You don't need to reinstall.

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Re: bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!

[Igor Peshansky]

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On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, João Gonçalves wrote:

> I am trying to start cygwin and I get this error message.
> I understand, from what I read, that this error is because I am using
> a different user. And that's true, I am using a different user, but I
> also lost the old user, because I installed windows again!
> Is to mount cygwin in my current user withou going to the old one? Or
> do I have to install cygwin again?

Please read and follow

> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Without that information, a WAG is that your initial Cygwin install was
for "Just me", and the new user is missing the standard mounts.  You can
either use the "mount" command to set up standard mounts, or just re-run
setup and tell it to install for "All users".  You don't need to reinstall
anything (though the above run of setup will upgrade your installation as
well unless you go into the "Keep" mode).
HTH,
	Igor
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Re: bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!

[Eric Blake]

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According to João Gonçalves on 12/12/2006 11:22 AM:
> I am trying to start cygwin and I get this error message.
> I understand, from what I read, that this error is because I am using
> a different user.

Yes, it is annoying that when /tmp is not mounted, and / does not contain
a physical subdirectory named tmp, that bash refuses to start.  I'll
consider ripping that out of bash, since it was an upstream chunk of code
protected by __CYGWIN__ (ie. someone in the distant past, before I was
maintainer, thought that such a cygwin-specific patch would be useful),
and replacing it with mkdir("/tmp") instead.  Then the failure would only
be if /tmp cannot be created, rather than that it did not exist.

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RE: bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!

[Kenneth Nellis]

> From: Eric Blake 
> Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 9:25 AM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!
> 
> <snip>
> Yes, it is annoying that when /tmp is not mounted, and / does not contain
> a physical subdirectory named tmp, that bash refuses to start.  I'll
> consider ripping that out of bash, since it was an upstream chunk of code
> protected by __CYGWIN__ (ie. someone in the distant past, before I was
> maintainer, thought that such a cygwin-specific patch would be useful),
> and replacing it with mkdir("/tmp") instead.  Then the failure would only
> be if /tmp cannot be created, rather than that it did not exist.
> <snip>

I'm curious if Eric intends to reference /tmp directly, as opposed to
recognizing environment variable TMPDIR, if defined?
--Ken Nellis


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Re: bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!

[Eric Blake]

Kenneth Nellis <knellis <at> syntek-usa.com> writes:

> 
> I'm curious if Eric intends to reference /tmp directly, as opposed to
> recognizing environment variable TMPDIR, if defined?

Indeed, it appears that there may be an upstream bash bug - 'man bash' claims 
that $TMPDIR is honored, but in reality, it is only honored in the fc builtin 
(here-docs do not use it; and if cygwin did not support /proc/self/fd, the 
fallback of named pipes does not use it either; there were no other instances 
of tmp files created by bash).  Yes, I intend for that to be part of my fix.

If the use of TMPDIR by here-docs is not fixed, bash prefers P_tmpdir (which on 
cygwin is defined as "/tmp"), then "/tmp", then "/var/tmp", then "/usr/tmp", 
then "."; if it gets all the way through the list and has not found an 
existing, writable directory, that is when it fails.  But since that failure 
point is rather late in the game, I can see why the previous cygwin-specific 
hack of checking for the existence of "/tmp" as part of bash initialization was 
done.

Oh, and I just found a bash bug - if you make TMPDIR longer than PATH_MAX, the 
heap gets corrupted.

-- 
Eric Blake



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