Re: cygcheck failing verification on latest snapshots

[marco atzeri <marco dot atzeri at gmail dot com>]

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Corinna Vinschen  wrote:
> On Feb 26 13:33, marco atzeri wrote:
>> On recent snapshots I noticed that
>> cygcheck is reporting as missing the files under the mount points
>> /usr/bin
>> /usr/lib
>>
>> $ mount
>> E:/cygwin2/bin on /usr/bin type ntfs (binary,auto)
>> E:/cygwin2/lib on /usr/lib type ntfs (binary,auto)
>> E:/cygwin2 on / type ntfs (binary,auto)
>> C: on /cygdrive/c type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
>> E: on /cygdrive/e type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
>>
>> $ cygcheck -c -v bash
>> Cygwin Package Information
>> Last downloaded files to: E:\downloads\cygwin
>> Last downloaded files from: http://matzeri.altervista.org
>>
>> Package ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Version ? ? ? ?Status
>> Missing directory: /usr/bin/ from package bash
>> Missing file: /usr/bin/bash.exe from package bash
>> Missing file: /usr/bin/bashbug from package bash
>> Missing file: /usr/bin/sh.exe from package bash
>> bash ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 4.1.10-4 ? ? ? Incomplete
>
> Works for me.
>
>
> Corinna
>

Thanks Corinna,
I just discovered the root cause and it is not related to the snapshot but to
/etc/fstab content.

I am using cygwin on an external hard disk and to avoid every time to
redefine the mount point I was using a fstab like this:

/cygwin2 / some_fs binary 0 0
/cygwin2/bin /usr/bin some_fs binary 0 0

instead of

e:/cygwin2 / some_fs binary 0 0
e:/cygwin2/bin /usr/bin some_fs binary 0 0

in the first case cygwin works, without problem whatever is the disk letter,
but cygcheck doesn't succeed to locate the mount points

$ cycheck mount
bash: cycheck: command not found

$ which mount
/usr/bin/mount

$ cygcheck  /usr/bin/mount
\cygwin2\bin\mount.exe
  E:\cygwin2\bin\cygwin1.dll
    C:\WINDOWS\system32\ADVAPI32.DLL
      C:\WINDOWS\system32\KERNEL32.dll
        C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll
      C:\WINDOWS\system32\RPCRT4.dll
        C:\WINDOWS\system32\Secur32.dll

in the second case, as expected

$ cygcheck  mount
Found: E:\cygwin2\bin\mount.exe
E:\cygwin2\bin\mount.exe
  E:\cygwin2\bin\cygwin1.dll
    C:\WINDOWS\system32\ADVAPI32.DLL
      C:\WINDOWS\system32\KERNEL32.dll
        C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll
      C:\WINDOWS\system32\RPCRT4.dll
        C:\WINDOWS\system32\Secur32.dll

Regards
Marco

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