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dragonajie

Member

From: Dragonmount, near the Isle of

Registered: 2005-12-06

Posts: 32

shell-init and getcwd error

Hi,

I did a Pacman -Syu and get this:

shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory

may i know what does it mean, and how to fix it? thaks.

T-Dawg

Forum Fellow

From: Charlotte, NC

Registered: 2005-01-29

Posts: 2,736

Re: shell-init and getcwd error

I think thats a problem with one of your mirrors. Try adjusting them by moving one up on the list in /etc/pacman.d/{extra,current}

gone404

Member

Registered: 2010-06-22

Posts: 8

Re: shell-init and getcwd error

I was having the same issue. shell-init errors were showing up on initial login (but not subsequent sessions). I fixed it by running:

# systemctl list-unit-files --type=service|grep enabled

And then:

# systemctl restart [every enabled service]

I'm not positive, but I think it had something to do with me starting a service with sudo as a regular user in their $HOME.