On 30 May 2010 18:48, physicist25 wrote: > I am initiating two ways, 1- using the desktop icon I created and 2-using the > one at start that says mintty. > Their startups screens are "bash-3.2#" and "-sh-3.2$". Does this answer your > question?
The result in case 1 is to be expected unless your desktop shortcut contains a '-' argument to tell mintty to invoke bash as a login shell. If bash isn't invoked as a login shell, /etc/profile isn't sourced and the prompt and path (among other things) aren't set up. The default mintty shortcut in the start menu does contain that '-' argument though, which is confirmed by the '-' at the start of the prompt you get. I can only reproduce that by removing /etc/profile though, so it looks like something's gone quite wrong with your install. At this point we'll probably need the cygcheck output as described at http://cygwin.com/problems.html, or you might just want to try reinstalling. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
