On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > Hmm, very weird. According to a couple of Google searches, the above > looks like a message from UWin startup files -- Cygwin does > *not* have a > profile.global, and the Cygwin bash won't look for anything in > /usr/local/etc by default. Do you, perhaps, have a c:\.bashrc or > c:\.bash_profile or c:\.profile left over from a prior installation of > UWin?
Aha! Your response led me to the answer for this problem. Within my company (Ericsson), we have our Unix home directories mounted as the H:\ drive on our PCs. The H:\ dir just happens to contain a .profile, which just happens to execute /usr/local/etc/profile.global. And, for whatever reason, when I start a DOS prompt, it defaults to the H:\ drive. Also, after installing Cygwin, /etc/passwd sets my home dir to /cygdrive/h by default. So, the answer to the problem is that Cygwin's bash was finding and executing .profile from an unrelated Unix environment. I'm CCing Chloe, since I'm curious if they have a similar setup within Qualcomm. > Just for reference, the way it *should* set $HOME is described in your > /etc/passwd (if you don't have the latest, copy it from > /etc/defaults/etc/passwd). > > ... > > Hmm, it would be interesting to see what "echo $HOME" says in a bash > session that you start using "c:\cygwin\bin\bash --norc"... Here's that output: ----- C:\cygwin\bin>bash --norc bash-3.00$ echo $HOME /cygdrive/h ----- Again, that shows the root of the problem. In the end, I changed /etc/passwd to point to my My Documents dir instead of /cygdrive/h and now everything works fine. Also, concerning the other post I sent about rxvt setting the font size/spacing to something funny, after changing /etc/passwd, rxvt acts fine as well. > > Thank you for your help so far, Igor. > > You're welcome -- it's a curious problem, and I'd like to get to the > bottom of this. Also, I don't think you've ever posted the output of > "cygcheck -svr" on your system (in its non-working configuration), as > requested in <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>. Please make sure you > *attach* the output as an uncompressed text attachment, rather than > include it inline. Thanks again! And just to nail the coffin shut on this, I've attached the output of cygcheck. - Jason Fritz
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