Some more results: 1. The reason why the bash terminal window flashes and aborts is that it was referencing the setup cygwin.bat!!!. Changing the command line to the cygwin folder as it should be yields a window that stays open.
2. The startup sequence that once set up the paths and other stuff so that Cygwin would function is absent. If I type simple commands with ./ prefix (find them on the current /usr/bin directory), they will work. The path env is absent. 3. The check file show "HOME" also pointing to the setup folder. This should probably be to the cygwin base folder. Since all the environment sets are not there, this is not relevant. This should be fixable at this point. How? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/