Ok, well, we managed to resolve this, but I don't understand why what we did would fix this.
In system environment variables in Windows, they added "c:\cygwin64\bin" to the end of the PATH. That fixes the problem. That just doesn't make any sense to me. In a Cygwin shell, "/usr/bin" is in the PATH, which is the same as "c:\cygwin64\bin". On Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 2:07 PM David Karr <davidmichaelk...@gmail.com> wrote: > (I replied with this earlier directly to someone who I didn't realize had > only replied to me.) > > I do have a couple other clues that I've noticed while continuing to debug > this. > > This person also has "git bash" installed, which is certainly similar to > Cygwin, but not quite the same. In his gitbash shell, he does not get this > error. > > If it matters, here is the "uname -a" output (hostname elided): > > CYGWIN_NT-10.0-22000 ... 3.4.6-1.x86_64 2023-02-14 13:23 UTC x86_64 > Cygwin > > If it matters, here is the same from his gitbash shell: > > MINGW64_NT-10.0-22000 ... 3.1.7-340.x86_64 2021-03-26 22:17 UTC x86_64 > Msys > > He is running Windows 11 (as I am). > > What else can I try to narrow this down? > > On Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 2:54 PM David Karr <davidmichaelk...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I have been using Cygwin for many years, although I wouldn't call myself >> an advanced user. >> >> I'm working with some much newer users. They set up Cygwin, but I didn't >> see them do it. I ran "uname -a" and it was about the same as mine. I >> compared the output of "env|sort" and I saw some differences, but I can't >> tell if they were significant. >> >> When I run the following command: >> >> kubectl config use-context dev2ff >> >> It works perfectly fine, setting the correct context. When this user I'm >> working with runs the same command, he gets this (replacing his userid with >> "..."): >> >> error: FindFirstFile C:\cygwin64\home\.../.kube/config: The directory >> name is invalid. >> >> He did have "HOME=/c/Users/...", but I had him change it to "/home/...", >> but that didn't make any difference. >> >> I'm not sure what could be happening here. >> > -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple