Problem w cygwin mount on new laptop

[william milbratz]

hi,

Someone posted the same problem a few months back. I didn't see an
answer so I'm reposting.

I've moved to a new computer and suddenly my .emacs dies on
cygwin-mount. AFAIK, the only difference between the computers are an
extra 'usb' drive reader which looks like a drive. I've used the same
emacs setup on various computers; this is the first time I've had a
problem.

I'm running emacs 21.3 on Win2000.

Unfortunately, I don't know elisp so am limited in my debugging.

The stack trace follows (note that there's some incorrectly encoded
characters at the end):

thanks,

bill milbratz


Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
  string-match("^//.+" nil)
  (or (string-match "^//.+" name) (string-match "/\\[.+\\]" name))
  (if (or (string-match "^//.+" name) (string-match "/\\[.+\\]" name))
name (let (... ... match) (while mounts ... ...) (if match ... name)))
  (progn (if (or ... ...) name (let ... ... ...)))
  (unwind-protect (progn (if ... name ...)) (set-match-data
save-match-data-internal))
  (let ((save-match-data-internal ...)) (unwind-protect (progn ...)
(set-match-data save-match-data-internal)))
  (save-match-data (if (or ... ...) name (let ... ... ...)))
  cygwin-mount-substitute-longest-mount-name(nil)
  (setcar args (cygwin-mount-substitute-longest-mount-name (car
args)))
  (progn (setq args (copy-sequence args)) (setcar args
(cygwin-mount-substitute-longest-mount-name ...)))
  (if args (progn (setq args ...) (setcar args ...)))
  (when args (setq args (copy-sequence args)) (setcar args
(cygwin-mount-substitute-longest-mount-name ...)))
  cygwin-mount-name-expand(expand-file-name
"/usr/spool/mail/bmilbratz" nil)
  apply(cygwin-mount-name-expand expand-file-name
("/usr/spool/mail/bmilbratz" nil))
  (if fn (apply fn operation args) (cygwin-mount-run-real-handler
operation args))
  (let ((fn ...)) (if fn (apply fn operation args)
(cygwin-mount-run-real-handler operation args)))
  cygwin-mount-name-hook-function(expand-file-name
"/usr/spool/mail/bmilbratz" nil)
  file-exists-p("/usr/spool/mail/bmilbratz")
  display-time-file-nonempty-p("/usr/spool/mail/bmilbratz")
  display-time-update()
  display-time-mode(1)
  display-time()
  eval-buffer(#<buffer  *load*> nil "~/.emacs" nil t)
  load-with-code-conversion("c:/.emacs" "~/.emacs" t t)
  load("~/.emacs" t t)
  #[nil ",T