Re: Progress? (again, please try a snapshot)

[Harold L Hunt <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Chris,

Yup, as in my other followup, I don't have permission to write to HKLM on this
machine (nor can I get it).

I added the -u parameter and got the mount command to work.

However, the new mount made no difference.  The problem still exists.

Strace with new mount:

http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xwin/xterm-newmount-strace.out.bz2 (254 KiB)

Harold


Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com> said:

> On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 04:41:42PM -0400, Harold L Hunt wrote:
> >Chris,
> >
> >> Hmm.  If you do a:
> >> 
> >> mount -f -X -b c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin /usr/X11R6/bin
> >> 
> >> does the problem go away, perchance?  I would expect it to.
> >
> >Tried it, didn't work.  See below.  Any other syntax hints?
> 
> Yeah, if you are going to perform the mount from a bash shell,
> remember that '\' is a special character.  Either use doubled
> backslashes or "forward" slashes (as you've done).
> 
> I don't know what's causing the "Permission denied" unless you
> can't write to the HKLM part of the registry.  Adding a '-u'
> to the mount options may help.
> 
> cgf
> 
> >(My user name is 'hunt' on this machine.)
> >
> >Harold
> >
> >
> >hunt@NUCFAC13 ~
> >$ mount -f -X -b c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin /usr/X11R6/bin
> >mount: /usr/X11R6/bin: Invalid argument
> >
> >hunt@NUCFAC13 ~
> >$ mount -f -X -b c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin /usr/X11R6/bin/
> >mount: /usr/X11R6/bin/: Invalid argument
> >
> >hunt@NUCFAC13 ~
> >$ mount -f -X -b c:/cygwin/usr/X11R6/bin /usr/X11R6/bin
> >mount: /usr/X11R6/bin: Permission denied
> >
> >
> >C:\cygwin\bin>mount -f -X -b c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin /usr/X11R6/bin
> >mount: /usr/X11R6/bin: Permission denied
> >
> >
> >hunt@NUCFAC13 /usr/X11R6
> >$ ls -l
> >total 0
> >drwxr-xr-x    2 hunt     Administ        0 Jun 25 13:00 bin
> >drwxr-xr-x    6 hunt     Administ        0 Jun 25 13:06 include
> >drwxr-xr-x    3 hunt     Administ        0 Jun 25 13:00 lib
> >drwxr-xr-x    5 hunt     Administ        0 Jun 25 13:06 man
>