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Re: /bin and /lib mount points occasionally lost
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 06:21:13PM -0700, richw wrote:
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>Warren Young wrote:
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>> On 6/13/2012 5:32 PM, richw wrote:
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>>> 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.
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