Re: ls: reading directory /cygdrive/c: No such file or directory

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Dec 21 09:58, Michael Baierl wrote:
> Hi there!
> Some time ago my rsync-backup-scripts stopped working and there is 
> really a weird issue that I could not solve using Google and the mailing 
> list archive. Look at the following:
> 
> bash-3.2$ ls /
> bin  cygdrive  ... works
> bash-3.2$ ls /cygdrive/c
> ls: reading directory /cygdrive/c: No such file or directory
> bash-3.2$ cd /cygdrive/c
> bash-3.2$ ls
> ls: reading directory .: No such file or directory
> bash-3.2$ cd temp
> bash-3.2$ ls
> ... works ...
> 
> Why can't I list some directories inside /cygdrive/c, but others work fine?
> 
> Any ideas?

Can you please run `strace -o ls.trace ls /cygdrive/c' and send the
ls.trace file as attachment to your reply, together with the output
of `cacls C:\\'?  This might help to figure out what happens.


Corinna

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