Re: shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: Permission denied

[allan . peda]

On Thursday, July 17, 2008 11:42:57 PM UTC-4, Chet Ramey wrote:
> LynnOS wrote:
> > Thanks ,but after I export PWD,the problem doesn't go
> 
> As I explained previously, this is not a bash problem.  This is a
> problem with file permissions in the current working directory.
> 
> 
> Chet
> -- 
> ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
> 
> Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/

I just saw this message upon logging in from OSX Lion to our Centos 5.5 and was 
starting to look at remote permissions.  Before I started to mess with things I 
tried from a freshly started console; no problem there.   So I logged out of 
the remote machine, changed to my home directory (simply typing "cd") and tried 
again.  No issue. 

I think I was in a local directory that was removed and recreated or something 
odd.

So FWIW.