On Dec 12 10:20, John Morrison wrote: > On Thu, December 11, 2008 5:42 pm, Andrew Schulman wrote: > >> Now, *sometimes* when I > >> start cygwin (via the standard batch file) I get ~ to be my > >> "c:\Documents > >> and Settings\[user]\" and othertimes it all works and ~ is /home/morrijr > >> which is mounted to "d:\Wrkfile". I've not be able to workout when or > >> why. > >> > >> When it doesn't honor the path in my passwd file it also comes up with > >> the > >> > >> "Your group is currently "mkpasswd". This indicates that > >> the /etc/passwd (and possibly /etc/group) files should be rebuilt. > >> See the man pages for mkpasswd and mkgroup then, for example, run > >> mkpasswd -l [-d] > /etc/passwd > >> mkgroup -l [-d] > /etc/group > >> Note that the -d switch is necessary for domain users." > >> > >> message. > > > > John, thanks for reporting this. I also have this problem in Cygwin 1.7, > > ever since I installed it. The problem does not occur in Cygwin 1.5. > > > >> Note that the group file is *very* big (IMO) 6505 entries! There's only > >> local users and my domain account in my passwd file (16 entries). > > > > I am also in a domain. There are 20,300 entries in /etc/passwd, and > > 22,269 in /etc/group. > > > >> Can anyone suggest anything I can try either to fix or more reliably > >> reproduce the problem? > > > > Here's what I've been able to figure out about it: > > > > The error happens the first time I open a Cygwin 1.7 console after each > > reboot. > > On the 2nd and subsequent times after a reboot, bash starts without error > > and finds my correct $HOME. I can log out and log back in, and the next > > console will open without error. Reboot, start a console, and I get the > > error again. > > > > Does that also happen to you? A clue for sure, though I have no idea > > where it's pointing. > > Agreed, it happens the first run, but, I just updated my OpenSsh package > and *that* broke it once. Close the broken terminal and launch another > and no problems... However reinstalling OpenSsh doesn't result in a > broken terminal. :(
I don't think that has to do with the size of the /etc/passwd and /etc/group files. Not sure if I can work on that before the christmas break, though... Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/
