Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 14:25:31 -0400 From: Phil Edwards Message-Id: <200004221825.OAA01198@jaj.com> To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Subject: Re: cygwin Digest 22 Apr 2000 17:29:16 -0000 Issue 477 > On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 03:29:25PM -0400, Phil Edwards wrote: > >> It sounds like you probably have /bin mounted explicitly. Looks like > >> this is YA change to setup. > > > >The documentation might oughta change from "explicit mounts will be > >overwritten," to something like "explicit mounts will cause Weird Things > >to happen before being overwritten." > > Um. No. I guess I should have phrased that as a question: Did you have > /bin mounted explicitly? Yes. But only /bin. It had been so long since I had to mess with the mounts that I'd forgotten which were default and which were explicit. > Another question: Did you have other cygwin processes running during the > setup? No. > Rather than add glib comments to the documentation, I think it is probably > a better plan to track down what's going wrong. I took it as given that anybody implementing my suggestion would have expanded Weird Things into a much longer and less facetious expression. :-| I will try to be more literal in the future. We're in the process of rebuilding another LoseNT box; when we're done I might be putting Cygwin onto it. If I do I will be more than happy to experiment. The new setup.exe alone might be enough. Phil -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com