/bin and /lib mount points occasionally lost

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Wed Jun 13 17:48:00 GMT 2012


On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 10:19:42AM -0700, richw wrote:
>I occasionally find that cygwin is broken, and I find that /usr/bin and
>/usr/lib no longer are useful.  The mount command (for which I need to
>type /bin/mount) shows nothing mounted there.  I type the following two
>commands:
>mount c:/cygwin/bin /usr/bin
>mount c:/cygwin/lib /usr/lib
>and things work (through reboots) for a while, and then break again.
>Any hints how I can keep this from happening, or what might cause it?

One big hint:
http://cygwin.com/problems.html

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