Re: error with retrieving directories

On Tue Aug19'25 03:45:06PM, Mutt Users' Mailing List wrote:
> From: Nacho via Mutt-users <[email protected]>
> Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2025 15:45:06 +0000
> To: Mutt-users <[email protected]>
> Reply-To: Nacho <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: error with retrieving directories
> 
> Once mutt starts hit "!" and run "pwd" to see in which directory is mutt running.
>  
> Most likely the problem is due to lack of permissions for ".." directory and/or
> some confussion regarding symlinks, something related to the filesystem.

Thank you! I get:

pwd: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory

I don't know if this is helpful in resolving the situation.

Best wishes,
Ranjan

>  
> 
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2025 at 09:49:46AM -0500, Ranjan Maitra via Mutt-users wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I use mutt with xterm.
> > 
> > I have been having a strange error of late (for the past week or so).
> > 
> > Basically, mutt opens up with the following:
> > 
> > shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory
> > 
> > I do not what I (accidentally) did to get this, but how do I fix this? I only get this from mutt. (And I have not updated my .muttrc in a while.) 
> > 
> > Any suggestions?
> > 
> > Many thanks and best wishes,
> > Ranjan
> > 
> >