On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 11:43 AM Lee wrote: > On 8/16/19, David Karr wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 10:32 AM Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote: > > > >> Am 16.08.2019 um 15:28 schrieb David Karr: > >> > On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 3:50 AM Andrey Repin wrote: > >> > >> >> Do you have %HOME% variable set in your user environment? > >> >> Do you have %HOMEDRIVE%/%HOMEPATH% variables defined to something > >> >> unsettling? > >> > >> > I checked "Environment Variables" in control panel, and I'm not > setting > >> > anything beginning with "HOME" in either user or system variables. > >> > >> That check is not really useful, though. > >> > >> You need to look at the actual environment constructed for a user > >> process, at run-time. About the easiest is to start a Windows command > >> shell (Start->Run "cmd") and look at the output of the "set" command. > >> > >> In cases of looking for names starting with some prefix, like here, you > >> can narrow down the search: > >> > >> set HOME > >> > > > > That just results in: > > > > HOMEDRIVE=C: > > HOMEPATH=\Users\<myuid> > > > > I detailed this in another reply, but this would fit one of those checks, > > which should result in "C:\Users\<myuid>", which is my Windows home > > directory, which does exist. I don't want it to use this, but it's not > > anyway. It's resulting in "/" as my Cygwin home. > > Have you checked /etc/nsswitch.conf yet? > $ cat /etc/nsswitch.conf > # /etc/nsswitch.conf > # > # This file is read once by the first process in a Cygwin process tree. > # To pick up changes, restart all Cygwin processes. For a description > # see > https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-mapping-nsswitch > # > # Defaults: > # passwd: files db > # group: files db > # db_enum: cache builtin > # db_home: /home/%U > # db_shell: /bin/bash > # db_gecos: <empty> >
This matches the state of mine, where all the lines are commented out. > Lee > > -- > 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 > > -- 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
