Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Path: not-for-mail From: Usman Muzaffar Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin Subject: mount trouble Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2002 05:21:00 -0700 Lines: 34 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 12-235-89-245.client.attbi.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1030968908 5301 12.235.89.245 (2 Sep 2002 12:15:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 12:15:08 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: KNode/0.7.1 Hi - I accidentally typed 'umount -A' (remove all mounts) when I mean to type 'umount -U' (remove user mounts). Two problems: 1. I can't remember exactly, but there used to be four or five mounts defined (/, /usr/bin, /usr/lib, maybe some X ones as well). How do I get them back? Why does cygwin use something like an /etc/fstab file instead of (I'm guessing) registry entries that are permanently removed when you umount? 2. Even after restoring /, /usr/bin and /usr/lib, I'm having a lot off difficulty. Notably: HOME no longer seems to be set. Double clicking on Cygwin bash gives me a shell in '/'. HOME seems to be set to '/'. sshd login refuses to work: I get 'permission denied', for all users, immediately after entering password. In fact, I shouldn't even get password prompt - key auth was working until I lost the mounts. If I had to guess, it seems like /etc/passwd can't be read. But that appears just fine with '/' mounted from c:\cgywin. Surely this command isn't that devastating? How do I get back to where I was? thanks, usman -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/