On Tue Aug19'25 03:45:06PM, Mutt Users' Mailing List wrote: > From: Nacho via Mutt-users <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2025 15:45:06 +0000 > To: Mutt-users <[email protected]> > Reply-To: Nacho <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: error with retrieving directories > > Once mutt starts hit "!" and run "pwd" to see in which directory is mutt > running. > > Most likely the problem is due to lack of permissions for ".." directory > and/or > some confussion regarding symlinks, something related to the filesystem.
Thank you! I get: pwd: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory I don't know if this is helpful in resolving the situation. Best wishes, Ranjan > > > On Tue, Aug 19, 2025 at 09:49:46AM -0500, Ranjan Maitra via Mutt-users wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I use mutt with xterm. > > > > I have been having a strange error of late (for the past week or so). > > > > Basically, mutt opens up with the following: > > > > shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access > > parent directories: No such file or directory > > > > I do not what I (accidentally) did to get this, but how do I fix this? I > > only get this from mutt. (And I have not updated my .muttrc in a while.) > > > > Any suggestions? > > > > Many thanks and best wishes, > > Ranjan > > > >
