In summary: 1. Home directory is not accessible via: 'cd <return>' or 'cd ~' (it takes me to /tmp) and 'ls -al /home' shows my home directory as having corrupted permissions, UID and GID (all are ???)
2. Home directory is accessible and shows proper perms/UID/GID when I go there with the full path from /cygdrive/c Specifically, After installing cygwin (using --noadmin flag), rebooting, and launching a cygwin shell, I get the message: mkdir: cannot create directory '/home/myname': No such file or directory /home/myname could not be created. Setting HOME to /tmp Then, if I go to /home and type: #ls -al ls: cannot access 'myname': No such file or directory total 4 drwxrwxrwt+ 1 myname somegroup(513) 0 Aug 27 15:35 . drwx------+ 1 myname somegroup(513) 0 Aug 25 17:55 .. d?????????? ? ? ? ? ? myname And, indeed from there, I can't ls/cd into the 'myname' home directory - nor can I change the perms or uid/gid. HOWEVER, if I go manually to the home directory using the full path relative to C:, everything seems fine. #cd /cygdrive/c/Users/myname/Desktop/cygwin/home #ls -al drwxrwxrwt+ 1 myname somegroup(513) 0 Aug 27 15:35 . drwx------+ 1 myname somegroup(513) 0 Aug 25 17:55 .. drwxr-xr-x+ 1 myname somegroup(513) 0 Aug 27 14:55 myname And I can then ls/cd into the intact 'myname' home directory. Note I don't have admin permission on this machine so I used 'cygwin-setup --no-admin' to install Cygwin. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple