Re: problem with mkdir //fileserver when opening cygwin terminal

[Leo Lagos <leo dot lagos at gmail dot com>]

Hi,

Attached is the cygcheck output.

Regards,

On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 3:55 PM, Leo Lagos wrote:
> Thanks Larry,
>
> I opened a cmd.exe terminal, and for HOME I got:
>
> C:\Users\llagos>set | findstr HOME
> HOMEDRIVE=C:
> HOMEPATH=\Users\llagos
> NCHOME=C:\IBM\Tivoli\Netcool
> OMNIHOME=C:\IBM\Tivoli\Netcool\omnibus
>
> C:\Users\llagos>
>
> No %HOME% on my windows...
>
> Regards,
>
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin)
>> On 3/21/2014 5:06 PM, Leo Lagos wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I've been having this problem after a while. It seems it appeared
>>> after I removed the 32bits versions, and installed the 64bits one.
>>>
>>> Every time I open a terminal, I got this message:
>>>
>>> mkdir: cannot create directory `//fileserver': Read-only file system
>>> //fileserver/public/llagos could not be created.
>>> Setting HOME to /tmp.
>>>
>>> llagos@T420-LLAGOS ~
>>> $
>>>
>>> I have done some updates after that, latest today, but the problem
>>> remains, so I think it's a bug in the sw, but something else, maybe
>>> some garbage left from the 32bits version I used before.
>>>
>>> If not that, I don't know what could it be.
>>>
>>> Has anyone got any clue on this message and possible solution?
>>>
>>> cygwin version is:
>>> $ uname -a
>>> CYGWIN_NT-6.1 T420-LLAGOS 1.7.28(0.271/5/3) 2014-02-09 21:06 x86_64 Cygwin
>>>
>>> llagos@T420-LLAGOS ~
>>> $
>>
>>
>> The best thing to do is file a complete problem report.  You can find
>> details on how to do that at the link below.
>>>
>>> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
>>
>>
>> As a wild guess, I'm going to assume you have HOME set in your windows
>> environment to this network directory.  Remove that and I expect you'll
>> get by this problem.
>>
>> --
>> Larry

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