Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-Id: <02Feb21.145752cet.117129@gateborn.nedcar.nl> From: "Vorst, Jan van der" To: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" Subject: RE: No home directory on fresh setup Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 14:58:54 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id g1LDxiL30958 Same report, including sygchecks > ---------- > From: Vorst, Jan van der > Sent: Thursday 21 February 2002 14:50 > To: 'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com' > Subject: No home directory on fresh setup > > A fresh installation of the latest cygwin results in no home directory. > One enters in /usr/bin/. > I editted passwd to point to it /home/ and created the /home/ > directory manually. This resulted in a correct login. > Then CVS however didn't work well anymore in that the administration > database was not updated in case of a modules checkin. > > I downloaded the previous cygwin version and made a fresh installation of > this one. It had none of the above problems. After updating this one to > the latest version (so no fresh installation) the problems did not > reappear. > > So it seems to me there is a problem with the fresh latest installation > procedure. > > The problem is reproducable on my machine. > I cleaned the registry before each fresh installation (setup). > > The following report < problems.url>>seems to be the same. > > included are: > 1. cygchecklatest: fresh installation of latest cygwin > 2. cygcheckprev: fresh installation of previous cygwin > 3. cygcheckprev2latest: previous to latest > > <> > regards, Jan van der Vorst > > **********Internet Email Confidentiality Footer********** Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person), you may not copy or deliver this message to anyone. In such case, you should destroy this message and kindly notify the sender by reply email. Please advise immediately if you or your employer do not consent to Internet email for messages of this kind. Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message that do not relate to the official business of my firm shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by it. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/