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Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 06:57:14 +0300
From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
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To: Mirko Vukovic <mirko.vukovic@gmail.com>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: mintty startup message: /sbin/nologin: No such file or directory
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Greetings, Mirko Vukovic!

> after upgrading cygwin64 on my company laptop, mintty gives the following
> message *when connected to the network from home*:

Does that mean you're logged into your work domain?

> /sbin/nologin: No such file or directory

> Pressing enter closes the window.

This screams of the Cygwin schema applied to your AD at work, but incorrectly
recognized at home.

> I can start bash from Windows' command window.  From there, I see that there
> is no /sbin/nologin file, heck there is no /sbin either.

> A couple of data points:
> - After the upgrade, I renamed away the /etc passwd and group files.
> - I was able to open mintty while connect to the network at work

Did you do any changes to the /etc/nsswitch.conf ?
What running 'getent passwd' yield about your user when you are connected and
not connected to the network?

> I have an almost identical setup on my other windows 7 desktop (always
> connected to the network) that does not exhibit this problem.

> I saw some posts from 2011 about creating my own file but I am puzzled
> as to why I see this on my laptop and not on my desktop.

> I looked in Windows logs and saw nothing.  I saw nothing in /var/log


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Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 21.03.2015, <06:53>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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