On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 08:12, Csaba Raduly wrote: > On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 3:53 AM, David Antliff wrote: >> How would one go about debugging the bash or mintty startup before >> .bash_profile is read? > > Duplicate your shortcut which launches bash and add -x to the bash > options (which should include -l a.k.a. --login)
Thanks everyone - using these tips I was able to determine that bash_completion was actually running twice - once by /etc/profile.d/bash_completion.sh, and again by my own .bash_profile, which was modifying the path prior to invoking it so that apps in my ~/bin were picked up. I don't actually have anything useful in there any more so it's really just a bunch of old stuff I brought over from my Linux config. I've tidied it up now. I now get the bash prompt after about 5 seconds, rather than 10. Disabling bash_completion completely gives me a prompt in less than 1 second, but I do quite like bash_completion so I'll live with that. -- David. -- 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
