RE: Octave problem

[Andy Adler]

Miguel,

It looks like your cygwin mounts are mixed up.
You can use "mount" to view your settings.

They should look something like:
$ mount
C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode)
C:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode)
C:\cygwin on / type system (binmode)
c: on /cygdrive/c type user (binmode,noumount)

To fix the mounts, use regedit to modify this key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2

Also, you can get an octave version that doesn't
mess with cygwin settings from here
http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~adler/octave

I'm copying this to the mailing list, in case others
are interested

Andy


On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Miguel Curi wrote:

> I installed Octave 2.1.36 (i686-pc-cygwin) from a windows installer.
> My installation of cygwin was working perfectly until I installed Octave.. I
> need to get it back working so please help me figure out what this problem
> is.
> I open cygwin as I usually do and instead of starting at my user directory
> (/home/username/) .. it starts at the root (/) ..
> Only when I try to do cd to home or ls now I get this:
>
> address@hidden /
> $ cd /home
> bash: cd: /home: No such file or directory
>
> address@hidden /
> $ ls
> D:\Octave\bin\ls.exe: *** MapViewOfFileEx 'shared'(0x610A60E8), Win32 error
> 6.  Terminating.
> D:\Octave\bin\ls.exe: *** MapViewOfFileEx 'shared'(0x610A60E8), Win32 error
> 6.  Terminating.
>
> What did octave do to my settings ? I still see the user and machine name as
> I am logged in address@hidden .. but it's not going to /home/joe/ as 
> specified in
> my .bash_profile :
> HOME=/home/joe
> USER=joe
> export HOME USER
>
> why is it trying to run D:\Octave\bin\ls.exe instead of D:\cygwin\bin\ls.exe
> .. I even placed :
> PATH=/bin:$PATH
> export PATH
> in my .bash_profile to default to the bin directory first. But that doesn't
> work either.. it's like it's not even reading my .bash_profile.
>
> I don't know why Octave changed my cygwin settings.
>
> I would appreciate any help.
> Thanks.
>
> Miguel.
>
>
>



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