Re: cannot acces parent Dir?

Division by Zero (paradox@maine.rr.com)
Sat, 22 Aug 1998 22:52:31 -0400

hmm odd. Usually one gets that if the directory they are in is removed from another VC.
Or, if yer not root, maybe you don't have permissions to that directory (or one of its
parentdirs).
Or maybe your pathname could be too long?

Nomad the Wanderer wrote:

> I'm trying to compile 117 and I keep getting this:
>
> shell-init: could not get current directory: getwd: cannot access parent directories
>
> As a result, I can't even do a "makde menuconfig". I've tried this on
> 2.1.116 and a 2.1.117 that I compiled on another machine.
>
> Robert
>
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> FYI:
> perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
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